I think the last time I used a floppy disc (3 1/2) was about four or five years ago. It had some drivers on it and I * was reinstalling XP. My current computer, which I've had for about 3 years, doesn't have a floppy drive.

*I wasn't really reinstalling. J was reinstalling for me and I was fannying about with old discs to see what was on them.

I still have some of those too!

Kind of like an old woman who hasn't had anything in her slot for a long time, either.

I think within the last year. I also have a USB external floppy disk drive. I still have a lot of old files on disk that I haven't used in ages. I'm thinking of transferring and burning to a CD or DVD and getting rid of them.

My shredder will shred CD's and DVD's, but obviously not 3 1/2 floppies. But pull out the metal shield and snip the film with a scissors, and they are secure against any low level identity thief.

Pile 'em in the street, douse 'em with diesel fuel, torch 'em, while dancing around naked, except body paint/feathers. If anyone objects, babble about freedom of religion, the Constitution, and Sarah Palin. :corn:

Zip disks count as floppies? I'm pretty sure I was still using those at my job 10 years ago.

I have old portfolio work stashed on 3.5" disks and a zip disk or two...why I keep them, I do not know. I can't look at the stuff on them, and wouldn't want to either!

At my tech school, I was in one of the last classes to compile programs using punch cards. At my first job one of my jobs was to change over a department that was processing rejected punch cards by hand to a using a report.

I am, however, too young to have used paper tape, which was like large ticker tape.

I don't remember if I ever used an 8" floppy disk.

Not only do I still code in COBOL, I am the same age as COBOL!

Another floppy day. Pre-loading RAID drivers, making ASR discs.

I'll have to use one on Saturday to update the BIOS on one of my PC.

In fact, that is the last thing I use them for.

Why are 8" floppy disks not part of the discussion? My first floppy disks were 8". Anybody use paper tape?

OMG, tw has an 8 inch floppy.

Hard now. Floppy later. Technology marched on.

5 years ago or so. I have a bunch of poetry on one or two. They just sit there gathering dust too.

LOL- I voted without reading the first post. I voted thinking a floppy was the old big ones as well... not the ones that didn't "flop." Mine should prob be within the last five years I would guess. We used to use them a lot in school before they installed (LOL) Zip drives. Then everything switched over to zips. Stupid.

Hey NOW !!!