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PRACTICE TIP

By Suzanne D. Wisnik
October 05, 2003

Recently a business associate of mine recorded a TV tech spot called 'Death of the Floppy.' When my friend told me the title of his program we laughed, but we started to talk about how far we have come in the type of removable media storage products that are now available to consumers.

In the marketplace today you will find the following major categories for removable storage media:

  • Diskettes
  • Tape Drives
  • Optical Media such as CD/DVD's

Since users can have a variety of PC configurations, not everyone can read from every media type. For example, everyone with a 3.5 inch floppy drive can read a floppy that was made on another PC's as there is a common format. However, tapes and optical media do not follow a universal standard. For example if you need to give your accountant a backup of your accounting database, be sure that he/she can read from the media that you supply.

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