WTF?! NO floppy in Lucid or in Meerkat!

[Liam Proven]

On 25 September 2010 02:45, rikona <rikona at sonic.net> wrote:
>  Hello Liam,
>
> Friday, September 24, 2010, 7:17:48 AM, Liam wrote:
>
> LP> I am dismayed that I am going to need to keep an older version
> LP> around just to read/write floppies, though. I don't use them often
> LP> but I do still need them sometimes.
>
> Agreed. Not often, but when you need them, you need them.
>
>>> (Also, just FYI, and this might explain a few things, all the devs
>>> appear to be using laptops, not desktops, for their work; this also
>>> stated in this "bug thread".)
>
> LP> This I suspected; Mark Shuttleworth invited me & the other
> LP> survivors of a launch party back to his South Kensington flat
> LP> once. Thinkpads everywhere, no desktops.
>
> Not good news for those of us who use desktops. I'm beginning to
> wonder if I made the right decision...

Well, if I had the money, I would mostly run laptops, I suspect,
rather than the motley assortment of old towers that actually comprise
my network. (Although one is a Mac and one is a SPARCstation, so they
can stay. :¬) ) I also have an iMac and a Mac mini (PowerPC versions)
and they are pleasantly small and neat and attractive.

But actually, I have computers to make money for me, not for me to
spend money on, so I run pretty much entirely on free kit that I have
been given by friends, clients and so on. This means it's all a bit
old - even my PC laptop, bought from a dealer in 2008, is a
refurbished 2004 model.

All my desktop/tower PCs still have floppy drives. None of the working
laptops do, I must admit; alas my 486-powered Thinkpad 701C died of
leaky batteries.

However, for the server and business workstation side of things, I
think that desktop technology is still important and needs to be
supported.

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