Swapping Floppy Disks
| Field | Computer usage |
| Went Obsolete | When the iMac shipped without a floppy drive |
| Made Obsolete By | CDs? and larger hard drives |
Remember to wait for the red light to go off before flipping the release lever.
Before networks were commonplace, and before Windows 95, you could image office or lab computers by creating one good master configuration, copy all of the files and folders to a set of 20 to 40 floppy disks, and then install that image by copying all of the floppy disks onto a new machine recently formatted with just a basic DOS install. Chunka, chunka, chunka …. and put the next disk in.
Actually, though, now, programs are so big that people sometimes had to do the same thing with CDs? or with DVDs?, so maybe it hasn't changed that much. Actually, with hard drives getting commonplace and enormous, it's possible for the program to remain stored on the computer and thus swapping media containing the program is no longer necessary.
