Migrating from the Legacy Diskette Drive: Ford Motor Company Case Study

[Brian Kelsay]

http://www.dell.com/us/en/gen/topics/vectors_2003-ford.htm
Dell is helping the Floppy on its way out the door.

I actually don't mind this now that the flash memory has gotten stable, 
cheap, reliable and has way more capacity.  Luckily the USB vs. Firewire 
fight has settled and USB won for the smaller devices w/ lower required 
capacity.  The last step was getting the BIOS to recognize it as a boot 
device.  What I don't understand is why a floppy drive still costs 
$15-20.  I realize that they have come down in price and that some 
places are cheaper than this, but still this is the average price in a 
store.

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I refrained from telling him that I doubted they could find their ass 
with an electronic ass finder.