Win98 -- all kidding aside

[Bart Silverstrim]

Karl Larsen wrote:
> Bart Silverstrim wrote:
>> Mario Vukelic wrote:
>>   
>>> On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 15:52 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
>>>     
>>>>     I have 100 floppies from the years before 1998 and would like to see 
>>>> how many are good 
>>>>       
>>> Yeah, as I said, I can understand that. Though I would not expect too
>>> much :)
>>>
>>>     
>>>> and might even use it for a BIOS update. They still 
>>>> talk about a floppy drive :-)
>>>>       
>>> Seriously? When most computers as sold don't even have one? I was
>>> curious and checked Intel's BIOS update page, and floppies don't seem to
>>> be the only option at all:
>>> http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/sb/CS-022312.htm
>>>     
>> We still have some servers, and versions of Windows, that needed 
>> floppies if you wanted to install controller drivers during install 
>> phase of the OS...very frustrating! :-)
>>
>> For the most part you can work around floppies and not use them. Once 
>> resorted to having to burn a bootable floppy image to the beginning of a 
>> CD, but I can't remember the circumstances at the time.
>>
>> Right now I think the only thing I've encountered that it still may be a 
>> necessity is the server farm if some versions of Windows needs the PERC 
>> driver added at installation. Oh, and I think there may be some version 
>> of software we have that insists on keys being installed via a 
>> "keydisk", but I think (hope) the company has already moved on to just a 
>> keyfile by now.
>>
>> -Bart
>>
>>   
>     Yes Bart, I have bought USB solid state memory things when their 
> cost dropped below $20 and they do the same thing a floppy did in 1998. 
> They are all at my house with a ext3 file system and work very well with 
> my Linux stuff.

Sorry Karl, but what are you referring to?