[Repeal The 17th]

I'm still happily using win98 on my stand-by machine.
I was going to upgrade it to xp but could not find a driver for my 5 1/4" drive.

[Richard Kimball]

We store more data than at any time in the history of the planet, and store it more impermanently. At first, my thought on reading your post was, "What a clone! Why would anyone want to use a 5 1/4 inch floppy today?" Then I thought about the fact that there's probably nobody on my entire campus that can read from a 5 1/4 inch floppy anymore, and what happens if you need information from one? My experience has also been that most stored media over eight years old has started to degrade anyway.

I think most stuff that's needed is ported over to a new storage methodology before the old one completely goes away. Flash drives have just about eliminated the floppy disk altogether, and the large cheap arrays may make portable hard drives the replacement for the DVD.