The point is it's not the 1980s anymore; floppy is no longer "the convenient choice".
There are literally a dozen better ways to do it than floppy, and many of them are still compatible with these old machines. While none of the choices available on these machines are great, floppy is still the worst one possible. And in here, everybody knows about those better ways.
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*puts on best Rain Man voice* "Floppy drives suck... yes, definitely... definitely suck..."
Yes, I am not stupid, I get that. That was you and Mansaxel's point. But that was not MY original point (it all started from my first remark, remember...), and you were both replying to me as if it was the point to begin with, which it never was. Hence it was completely irrelevant, hence I failed to see the insistence on hammering that point
It is exactly as if I had said for example "I find Nixie displays cool ! ", and then people vehemently writing essais on how Nixies are crap and colour graphical LCD touch screens are so much better.
Eh ?! What's the point of replying that ?
Or say, you saying how cool a Dragon avatar and people saying no it's stupid grow up, Dragons don't exist, read up !
If you find Dragons cool there is no need to justify, what's the point of even discussing the reality of Dragons ?!
I could go on and on...
Maybe you both misunderstood what I mean when I said I found FDD equiped TE "cool"... I thought it was obvious I meant it in an irrational / vintage interest kind of "cool", like we find our old glowing Tek scopes "cool"...
That said, in Dragon's style, I would like to stir it a little and have a bit of fun, and say that... sorry, but for me, right now.... a scope with a floppy is what makes most sense to me !
I am tired of taking 20 pictures of scope screens hoping one them would be half usable, then go back to my computer desk and download the pics, adjust compression ratio etc.
I don't want to have cables running across the floor on my living room either to go from the bench/scope, to my computer/desk., be it serial or GPIB or Ethernet or anything cable. Don't have these cables anyway. No all I want, sorry, just like in the '90s when these scopes were current is.... shove a freaking floppy inside the scope, put my screen capture on it, grab the floppy and take it to where ever in the house my desk/computer might be, then read that freaking screen capture, and call it a day ! A portable medium, any medium, don't care, but a portable one. USB would more practical, but not by much. file sizes are small so even on a floppy it doesn't take too long too write, I don't care one bit. OK my computer, even though it's 15 years old, doesn't have a floppy drive ? I can add one, must have one somewhere. Worse case I just get a cheap old used external floppy drive that you plug into a USB port, and that's all, big deal !!
See ? I can stir it too when I want ! Hey I might morph into a Dragon one day who knows !