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Re:The last person standing in the floppy disk business by traceroute66 on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @11:02AM (#32825205)
> Nothing in modern computing compares to the audible...

Ahem, cough, dial-up modem handshake.

That is all I have to say on the subject.

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Re:The last person standing in the floppy disk business by martopix on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @11:07AM (#32825280)
> In modern computing
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Re:The last person standing in the floppy disk business by stinkytaco on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @11:14AM (#32825372)
Surely the floppy disk is not more modern than the modem? They started to die around the same time, if I recall.
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Re:The last person standing in the floppy disk business by Dylan16807 on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @10:57PM (#32832800)
Both are not modern. I don't think the original post was trying to imply that floppies are modern.
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Re:The last person standing in the floppy disk business by quickthrower2 on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @06:46PM (#32831150)
Agreed, I remember dial up using an AOL CD. And CDR was around the corner.
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Re:The last person standing in the floppy disk business by bornfreddy on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @12:36PM (#32826611)
How about the constant fan noise when having ESET [0] installed on a Windows laptop then?

[0] if you don't have ESET at hand, I guess any "good" antivirus would do.

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Re:The last person standing in the floppy disk business by linker3000 on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @12:48PM (#32826812)
Bah - font kerning issue (keeming).
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