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It's funny that the insulting guy would be so wrong. Sorry charley I had an IBM mouse that pre-dated Macs, and it had two buttons.

When I boot from the floppy I run the Win98 DOS. Need it to swap disk images. Inside the software industry floppies are an absolute necessity, allows us to serious cut down on the number of machines we have for testing purposes and configuration time. Outside the software industry they might not be necessary, but that's OK we still buy a lot of computers.

More insults from you. Your need to use them shows you lack all confidence in yourself. Stop the insults.

Inside the software industry floppies are an absolute necessity, allows us to serious cut down on the number of machines we have for testing purposes and configuration time

We had a big lab of computers running dual-boot Linux/Windows. If a computer was trashed in testing or use (all the time) we'd just pop in a CD which would boot and grab the new image we wanted from the server. No floppy needed.

We then sent copies of the lab hardware/software all over the place to be run by the computer illiterate locals with simple instructions: if it dies while being hacked on by students, insert the CD, reboot and follow instructions pull a new image.