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Thread #66064 Message #1093416
Posted By: Grab
15-Jan-04 - 11:55 AM
Thread Name: Tech: Download a file to Floppy (3 1/2)
Subject: RE: Tech: Download a file to Floppy (3 1/2)
John, CD burners round our way are £25. If you can get a new PC for £100, I'd love to know where you're shopping! ;-)
I agree, CD is the only way to go these days. Zip drives and the like are basically dead now, where CD burners are cheap and ubiquitous. With stuff on CD, you can give it to anyone else and they can read it, because everyone has CD drives, and you can read it on any DVD drive (which will be the future format) as well. If you get a zip drive now and it breaks in 5 years, all your data will likely be gone because you won't be able to find a replacement zip drive to read the disks.
If your PC hasn't got a CD burner, best bet is probably to talk nicely to your local computer shop. If you get a good shop, they'll usually fit it for you (possibly for a small charge, but it shouldn't be much bcos the fitting process is pretty easy).
Jeepman, if by "music" you mean anything record (sound files, etc) then a floppy is never going to cut it. A floppy will store roughly 1-2 minutes of MP3, at most.