Hard Light Productions Forums

Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Bobboau on January 22, 2004, 12:05:07 am

Title: two flopy drive bays
Post by: Bobboau on January 22, 2004, 12:05:07 am

I was just tooling about with my computer when I thought to myself "why the hell do computers come with two floppy bays" surely I could understand why they would do this maybe 10-15 years ago, back when you had an a and b drive, but no (or few) mother boards suports two flopy drives any more. so is there any use for this opening other than to remind you how sentemental case designers are?

Title: two flopy drive bays
Post by: Blue Lion on January 22, 2004, 12:06:15 am

My computer came with no floppy drive at all

Title: two flopy drive bays
Post by: Bobboau on January 22, 2004, 12:10:49 am

realy most if not all cases I've seen have two bays (only one of wich had a drive in it), I've never seen a (PC) case that had no floppy bay at all (though I'm sure there are quite a many)

Title: two flopy drive bays
Post by: WMCoolmon on January 22, 2004, 01:09:37 am

Floppy drive + Zip drive. :D

Title: two flopy drive bays
Post by: Xelion on January 22, 2004, 01:17:42 am

Quote

Originally posted by WMCoolmon
Floppy drive + Zip drive. :D

rofl :lol: can't zip drives read a floppy disk...? :D

Title: two flopy drive bays
Post by: WMCoolmon on January 22, 2004, 01:45:03 am

Not a Zip-100. :p

Title: two flopy drive bays
Post by: pyro-manic on January 22, 2004, 07:28:32 am

Floppy, Zip, card reader, system info panel, breakout panel, etc. Loadsa stuff.... :)

Title: two flopy drive bays
Post by: Turnsky on January 22, 2004, 07:44:12 am

my case has 3 3.5" bays..

Title: two flopy drive bays
Post by: Fury on January 22, 2004, 08:17:42 am

Well, there are much more 3,5" devices than just floppy drives.

Title: two flopy drive bays
Post by: Turnsky on January 22, 2004, 08:19:38 am

Quote

Originally posted by Mr. Fury
Well, there are much more 3,5" devices than just floppy drives.

yeah, but there's a cradle for 5 3.5" hard-drives immediately below them..

Title: two flopy drive bays
Post by: diamondgeezer on January 22, 2004, 09:20:17 am

I really feel the need to plop a 5" floppy in there, just for the sake of completeness

Title: two flopy drive bays
Post by: Fineus on January 22, 2004, 10:14:16 am

Might as well, that said - lately CPU fans are coming with 3 1/2 floppy sized power adaptors to change the speed on the fan. More handy than reaching around the back as well...