It could be days or even weeks before the company could mail me a new license disk or email a new license file. Luckily the repair estimating software I was installing isn’t critical to our day-to-day operations at the school, but you can imagine if I worked in industry the absence of this software would bring day to day business to a grinding halt, and I might even be fired for negligence. I inserted the floppy and, not surprisingly, it was no longer readable (how a prolonged stay in a file cabinet kills a floppy I’m not quite sure). Today I ran into a situation where I needed to reinstall a software package which can only be installed when a floppy disk containing a license file is present. To some this tip might be a no-brainer, but regardless, it may one day save your hide. Ironically some of your business’ most critical files could be stored on floppy disks, the most undependable of all media. Rarely are floppies used to distribute software, but they are used for anything from boot disks and recovery disks to the distribution of software licenses. Much to the displeasure of everyone in the IT industry, some software companies still insist on utilizing floppy disks.
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