Virtual floppy drive

I was going down from the fifth floor, where the offices of the engineers and billing section are also located. I overheard the following conversation in the elevator. "They just removed the IBM machine without telling us. Now it has all our software for creating pay sheets and it has a floppy disk drive. Now I don't know what to do." "Why?" asked the other guy. "Because all our pay sheets are created in a dos-based program, and the pay sheets have to be sent on a floppy to the head office, or no one gets any salary." "Floppy?" the other guy was surprised. He was justified in being surprised. These days they make machines without floppy disk drives. Floppies are expensive. They go bad quite easily. Even brand new floppies are known to go bad from the time of purchase to your putting them in the drive. In fact, they might already be bad the time of purchase. After all, no one checks them before purchase like one checks an electric bulb or a fluorescent tube. "Yes, floppy", answered the first guy. "In modern times too! To run a dos-based program and send the document on a floppy! They won't allow pen drives because they spread viruses. As if floppies don't transfer viruses any more! It can happen only in MCGM!" It probably can happen elsewhere too, but I have not heard of any other place, nor had they. I thought of the Health University, where they belong to exactly opposite category. They ask for dissertations of resident doctors on DVD, when the largest dissertation is of about 5 to 10 megabytes. Either the decision maker there does not know the difference between a CD and DVD, or they want to use the remaining blank space on the DVDs for writing their own stuff. "And what is more, they supply modern machines with 2.66 GHz processor, 180 GB HDD, 3 GB RAM, DVD writers and what not, to do work that could be done with a low end machine (I thought of 486 machines) with cheap 1.6 GHz Atom processors and floppy disk drives. What a waste!" "But where do you get floppy disk drives?" the other guy asked. "Exactly!" the first guy said. You will wonder how I heard all this in transit downwards from 5th floor. Well, it was an elevator for cardiac patients and moved ever so slowly. Add to that time spent on each floor for discharging people and getting new ones in, and we have enough time. Before I got out on the first floor, I turned towards them and said, "Put a virtual floppy drive on you machines, and you don't have to worry about where to get floppy disk drives." They were surprised to hear something like this from an unknown person, that too from a doctor with white hair and the appearance of a professor. They did not stop me and ask from where to get it. If they don't know where to get a virtual floppy disk drive, and they don't find me to ask me again, or if they do not Google this and find out, I am giving a link below, which gives a free program of size 141 KB that does the trick. Of course they need to read my blog to get the link :-) http://webscripts.softpedia.com/script/Development-Scripts-js/Complete-applications/Virtual-Floppy-Drive-39797.html