Floppy drives

I don't get it. Why are floppy drives so evil that they can't be on computers? And then PS/2 mice, oh, those are so important. "USB mice are pointless, you should always use the convertor and plug it into the PS/2 slot." People seem to hate legacy items that are visible, but then love them when they aren't. Floppy drives rock, and PS/2 mice/keyboards suck.

Currently, floppy drives are the only removable medium found on most machines that is cheap, quick, and easy. They're bootable from every machine, readable, writable, and so on. People say to go get USB thumb drives, but they are much more expensive, and not all computers have plugs located conviently in the front to use them, and a lot of them don't fit in the front plugs anyways because of the poor designs of cases, being in an indent so you can't push it in. Going to the back of the computer really isn't easier then putting a floppy disk in the front. DVD/CD-RWs would be a good replacement, if the vendors of this hardware would hurry up and implement Mount Rainer (nicknamed Easy Write) support to all the drives. Without that, writing CD-RWs just isn't good compared to floppies. You can add files, delete files, and so on. Packet writing is a workaround for that, but the hardware needs to drive it, and not require third party software to control the writing to the CD. Once 95+% have this, then I agree, floppy drives will be useless and rewritable CDs will be the way to go, but until then, keep floppy drives in your computer. No other technology is mature enough to replace it.

PS/2 ports, however, should be removed from computers, and a USB -> PS/2 convertor should be made for the legacy devices. USB is superior to PS/2 in every way, is a smaller plug, and removing the controller and plugs will leave room for more USB plugs on the motherboard. There is no advantage to using PS/2, but tons of advantages to USB. Search google for those, plenty of people already list the advantages of USB mice over PS/2 mice.