I came here to post this. What's more, they use double density disks. Even the newer machines. What's a floppy drive cost for these things? Hundreds of dollars, of course. It's pretty silly.

And the quality of floppy disks has been going down. We get a lot more disks now that fail quickly. My last shop wiped/wrote disks for every job, which is more likely to wear them out quickly of course, but this place keeps a mirror of all the files on our server on disks out in the shop. Still, we run into files with bad sectors in them more often in the new disks than the old ones.

There are solutions that let you use USB sticks now, but again... very expensive.

Entirely true for me.

"Steel has also come up with the E=mc2 of procrastination, a formula he's dubbed Temporal Motivational Theory, which takes into account factors such as the expectancy a person has of succeeding with a given task (E), the value of completing the task (V), the desirability of the task (Utility), its immediacy or availability (G) and the person's sensitivity to delay (D). It looks like this and uses the Greek letter (capital gamma): Utility = E x V / GD"

Something interesting to note here -- if you are something like me, you may have built up an expectancy of failure not due to skill, but due to procrastination. That is, I tend to expect that I won't complete a project, not that I am incapable of doing so. E = 0 is a pretty bad case given the math! How does one rectify such a situation? I'll let you know when I figure it out. I plan to begin studying it tomorrow...