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Wait, there is a 4:30 AM??? I don't believe it, and I don't wanna experience it.

There was a time when the Dell computers the boss bought HAD to have a floppy to load a couple of drivers before loading Windows95. I saved several of the old floppies from old dead computers and would install them in the new computers just to load that driver. Finally when Windows 7 came out those drivers were part of the OS so the floppies were trashed except for one. It was on the shelf and the idiot son that owned the place tossed it and lots of other good stuff.

My business partner flies as co-pilot on King Air and Lear Jets. The king air even as late as 2018 used a 3.5 inch floppy to update the software. The captain of the King Air was clueless on computers. So my business partner dug up an old USB floppy to load the files on it to update the mega million dollar aircraft.

My old 2013 computer had the DVD burner just die, and I never replaced it. We used to burn CDs and DVDs all the time to deliver client projects. Now they are almost all too big, and a thumb drive, of FTP is more practical. I don't think I have burned a DVD in over a year or more.
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