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Old 27th Apr 2010, 23:27
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Saab Dastard
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Floppies are still sometimes useful for BIOS updates, diagnostics, booting up old OS's, for playing old games like Doom.

But only if there's no alternative.

And you may well need one to install SATA drivers for a clean install of Windows XP.

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