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The Last Computer you had with a 3.5" Floppy

Last computer with floppy (date purchased)

  • 1998 or before

    Votes: 35 28.9%

  • 1999-2001

    Votes: 21 17.4%

  • 2002-2004

    Votes: 37 30.6%

  • 2005-Present (wtf if you answer here)

    Votes: 28 23.1%
  • Total voters
    121
GimmeSlack12

GimmeSlack12

macrumors 603
Original poster
Ok, so most of you should be answering around 1998-99 on this one (when Apple decided to introduce computers sans floppydrives) but then again some of you, actually a lot, are switchers and had PC's with floppies. For me it was 1998 when I got my B/W G3/400.

Naturally have not thrown out my MASSIVE collection of floppies. Just like my huge stack of failed CD-R's.
 
1999 with my old K6-2 400 MHz machine. I loved encoding MP3s for the first time on that old thing.
 
2003 on the last PC I bought. I built it myself and the floppy drive cost £9.50.

I've still got the PC but it isn't connected up now I have Intel Macs with Parallels & Boot Camp for my occasional trips into Windows.
 
1994 second hand Acorn A3000. Cost £650 new, paid about £350. Now worth the occasional firing up for nostalgic reasons.

Just gotta love the old 3.5 'floppy' disk.

How about "When did you buy your last 5.25 inch floppy computer?"
 
I have two desktop HP computers that had them. One was purchased in September 2001, the other about 6 months later.
 
floppy disks weren't that bad..A lot easier then burning a CD.

Last computer was the HP PC purchased in 2002, still in use.
 
1997, my PB 3400c which came with swappable floppy and CD-R drives. I still use the floppy drive to transfer files between it and my newer macs (usb floppy on the new ones)
 
I think i got one in 2002 that came with a floppy... after that broke I got a mac, and never looked back...

I think another question would be... "when was the last time you 'used' a floppy?"
 
I sold my (heavily upgraded) Twentieth Anniversary Mac last year. I got 8 years' use out of it!

I don't think I used its floppy drive in this decade, though.
 
I tend to keep them around. It is called my 10 buck insurance plan. Just now when I build my next PC I think I will just move the floppy in the current one over to the new one.


Last time I used a floppy was about 10 months ago to turn an project into a professor who wanted it on a floppy.

In the 3.5 years I have owned my current PC tower I have used the floppy around 15-20 times. Well worth the 10 bucks I paid for the drive.
 
The last computer I bought with a floppy was the beige G3 I used to have. Don't remember the year, but I bought it new when it was first released.

The last time I used the floppy on that machine was when I upgraded from 9.2.2 to 10.2 - the floppy drive wasn't supported and didn't work anymore.

The last time I used any floppy was at work about three years ago. I finally got fed up with them going bad, and bought a flash drive.

The last time i saw someone use a floppy was about 2:15 pm today. Some of my coworkers still use them, mostly for files they don't look at very often, and haven't bothered to move to newer media.
 
My last PC that I will probably ever purchase which was an Alienware. It still works pretty good considering it's 5 years old to the date about 2 weeks ago. I remember they updated the cases to the way that they basically look now a month after I bought it.
 
1996. Performa 6116CD, my first and last computer with a build-in floppy drive. Then, I got an iMac Rev.A in 1998.
 
My Gateway (POS) that I aquired in 2003 had a floppy drive. But it died last year, so I don't care. I switched on 06, but still see PCs with floppy drives out there !Wtf!
 
Also a Gateway P4 2.2 Ghz purchased in February 2003. I never used the floppy at all. It recently received more Ram and a 256MB Video Card and is servicing on as my son's computer. He was happy as a clam, first PC in his room.
 
I'm not absolutely certain. I did a "major upgrade" on my old Celeron 400 in 2001 and brought it up to a Duron 850, and I would've still had a floppy drive then. My next system was an Athlon 2000 and I honestly don't remember whether it had a floppy drive or not. I only owned that system for a couple of months then picked up an iBook. That was five years ago.
 
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