Subj : Retro Computing
To   : Derision
From : Nightfox
Date : Mon Nov 19 2018 10:13 am

 Re: Retro Computing
 By: Derision to Chai on Sun Nov 18 2018 12:36 pm

>> I just popped in a floppy disk into Windows 10 (latest update).
>> Formatting, copying, chkdsk, all still works with floppies.
>> I imagine Windows will one day omit the ability to work with floppies,
>> but it's kinda cool that it's still there.  I'm honestly surprised
>> that they still support it, and I'm not surprised that Apple does not.

De> I found it a bit annoying when macOS stopped bothering with it. I mean,
De> they've bloated the rest of the OS to Vista levels of bloat, while still
De> deleting useful features.

Yeah, I thought it was somewhat odd (but not surprising) when Apple stopped
including optical drives in their Macs.  I also thought it was odd that Apple
never included blu-ray drives in their Macs though - as far as I know, they
only had DVD drives.

Nightfox

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