Floppy drive with new notebook?

[danceLD]

I'm in the process of purchasing a new notebook. I need a floppy drive because there is a lot of software my industry uses that is DOS based. This is offline editing software for computerized lighting control boards. (I currently use a dual boot W98/XP setup) I edit the shows on my notebook and export to a floppy disk. I can then use this disk in the floppy drive of the lighting board to load my show into the board. The software, of course, exports to the "A:" drive.
Most of the new notebooks have no floppy drive. I was told by a salesman that I could use a USB floppy drive and rename it as an "A:" drive and it would work. I, naturally, distrusted this opinion.
Does anyone know if this is true?

Thanks,
Dan

 

[RaPTuRe]

Well, FDDs are going the way of the dinosaur, and in reality they waste a lot of space on notebooks, as most users will never use them. The salesman, however, is quite correct (wait that can't be right 😛) about the USB option. It doesn't matter whether or no the drive is labled "A:" or "J:", does it? That's beside the point, as you can make the USB FDD "A:" anyway. Unless you find a notebook with an integrated FDD, I'm afraid thats pretty much your only option.

RaPTuRe

Who's General Failure and why's he reading my disk?

 

[danceLD]

Thanks for the insight!

Dan

 

[RaPTuRe]

no probs, Good luck

RaPTuRe

Who's General Failure and why's he reading my disk?