View single post by Robert

Posted: Tue Jan 8th, 2013 07:49

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Good point Bob, although generally the need for optical disks is diminishing, occasionally it can be handy to read one, and that method works well enough.

There was a hue and cry when Apple dropped the floppy drive from it's range of computers, now they really are obsolete as are tapes. I still have two tape drives but I know I will never use them because all the stuff I have on the tape is duplicated onto several hard disks.

When USB sticks easily hold 32Gb of data which is instantly accessible and re-writeable the need to transport stuff on CD has become much less.

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