[Delk]

> Aside from their limited space, I much preferred the floppy to the CD.

The use cases where each of those would be more convenient than the other are largely different. The CD had a capacity that you couldn't even begin to approach with any reasonable amount of floppies, and the read or write speeds of floppies would have made handling larger files rather cumbersome even if they had the capacity.

If you had a 20 kilobyte Word file or perhaps even a few smallish image files that you wanted to transfer, a floppy would of course be much, much more convenient than going through all the trouble of burning a CD.

[garaetjjte]

>If you had a 20 kilobyte Word file or perhaps even a few smallish image files that you wanted to transfer, a floppy would of course be much, much more convenient than going through all the trouble of burning a CD.

Well, later there was DVD-RAM which was essentially random-writable block device DVD. Orignally they even had floppy-like caddies: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/43/DVD-RAM_...