I got my xcal2 in and it came with a 3.5 in disc that im suppoed to read b4 i load teh tunes into my truck.. my problem is that i dont have a 3.5 inch drive in my computer.. ita a new computer and it only take Cds and those smaller memory cards..
My question is.. whats on teh disc? do i really need to read it?
O, and what program do you have to have to open it.. I took it to work with me and it will not open..

can anyone send it to me on a CD?

thanks

josh carroll

 

I know this is kind of late, but....

It kind of sucks that the new computers don't have a floppy drive. I have some stuff on floppy that I need to use. I picked up a USB floppy drive for 10 bucks on ebay. You could probably go down to the big box electronics store and get one for 20 bucks. They are pretty handy.

 

Take the 3.5" floppy back to work and this time click the right hand mouse button and you should see open, explore, and a few others. Click the work explore and it should show you some sort of directory of what is on the floppy. If you right click on one of those and the properties it will tell you what kind of file it is written in and you may find a program that will open the file.

I saw an external 3.5" floppy reader/writer with software at Best Buy for $57.00 + tax.

 

More reason not to feed Mikie Dell, HP, IBM and all the otherbig boys in the assembly line boxed computer biz.

Dell (and others most likely) sells stripped down motherboard consumer PCs that have literally no expandability for what seems to be an unbelievable price. You can do better custom building a PC and have a floppy. CDRs have been around since the mid 90's. Why is that in the last few years 3.5" floppies are being left behind. It's all part of give the unsuspecting consumer crap for cheap.

Whoever heard of a PC motherboard with 2 expansion slots? Dell...

Is there a download link for what's on the floppy?

 

thanks yall
i got it.. printed off my girlfriends computer

 

3.5 floppy drives are dead. Gone the way of the cassette tape.

You won't find them in any new computers, soon.

With the price of CD's and the ability to boot off of them, there is absolutely no reason for that antique floppy drive.

I for one am glad they are gone.

This is 2006, after all.

 

The 3.5 floppy is far from dead, most people still want them - as can clearly be seen here. Every one of our 6 brand new machines (and all the existing units as well, of course) we just put in our new shop has them, and I wouldn't have a computer without a 3.5" floppy drive of some kind.

It's far faster to burn a small file to a 3.5" floppy than it is to burn it to a CD or DVD - it would be a complete waste of time to burn a CD for every tune we send out, for example, so the 3.5" floppy has *plenty* of practical use, and I agree with most of the others - a good quality 3.5" floppy drive, at the RETAIL level, costs $10 - and on the wholesale level when buying them a thousand at a time is about $4 or less - there's just no reason not to have one - well, unless you're Mike Dell trying to push $299 & $399 POS machines we all see on TV every day.

 

Dead or not, what I can't figure out is how this became a thread. If the OP doesn't have a floppy, a simple email or phone call to the vendor (I'm assuming it's Troyer) would result in delivery of the tunes on an alternate media. No one is going to deny a customer hundreds of dollars worth of merchandise over the cost of a CD.

 

I don't know what system you're using, but I will race you on my system, and easily beat you......Xcal2 or not.

CD's are as cheap or cheaper than floppies, and they require nothing extra for burning. The same amount of date that goes on the floppy, goes on the CD.

You don't even need burning software. Just drag and drop the file(s) onto the CD drive icon, and it the burn button.

Seconds later, you're done.

As an extra added bonus, you could get ink-jet printable blank CD's, and have a real nifty label on there, with your logo and all kinds of sales minutia.

Think of the advertising space on that disk surface.

 

i have to agree here, if the file is small enough to fit on a 3.5 floppy i can burn it probably quicker onto a cd then the floppy drive can. and i dont know anyone with a computer that doesnt have a cdrom, i do know however a lot of people that dont have a 3.5, they are becoming obsolete.
and you can get a stack of 1k blank cd-r's for around 50 bucks.

 

I'm sorry but I have to disagree with the assertion that it is faster to burn a CD than to write to a floppy. In terms of the raw data writing throughput, yes, a CD burn can be much faster. However, every CD burn needs to have the lead in and lead out written, regardless of how may files or how big the files are.

I do agree that Troyer may be able to leverage the CD format to do more than provide the tunes but if they have a process that works and if they accomodate those without a floppy (e.g. they will email the tunes on request or send a CD) then the rest is just a business decision on their part.

 

On both my Toshiba Satellite laptop (which I've finally got working right) and my new HP Pavillian desk top it is quicker to copy to a floppy via the USB floppy drive than it is to burn to CD. I can also use the same USB floppy drive on both computers.

 

Hey Mike.....

Now that you're out of the basement workshop, and into a stand alone building, it's time to update to the current data storage format.

I just threw this together in about 5 minutes time, so the quality isn't really that good, but it will give you an idea as to what is possible to do in your shop, in order to present a more professional software package.



Feel free to copy this label as-is or use it for design ides of your own.

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