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35390 Re: Old Floppies
   Could be worse De . . . They might have been eight inch floppies.... 		Zimbler0   6TH POPE   08 Sep 2022
 8:09 PM
35327 Re: Old Floppies
   ...I have no use for old floppies. Ya got anything in Young Pear Shape... 		ribit   6TH POPE   07 Sep 2022
 6:07 PM

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Old Floppies

By: Decomposed in 6TH POPE
Wed, 07 Sep 22 4:37 PM
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While going through book boxes yesterday I came across a binder I made 30+ years ago containing old source code I'd like to recover. It's a lot of source code. I don't want to have to type it up. FORTUNATELY, the binder also has two floppy discs containing the same source code. UNFORTUNATELY, they're 5.25" floppies, not 3.5" floppies.

You can find 3.5" USB-powered floppy drives on Amazon for about twenty bucks. Good luck with 5.25" floppy drives, though. I don't think anybody makes them anymore.

I'm not sure what options I've got. It's possible that I still have working computers from that era. I hardly ever throw things away unless they're broken, after all. If I have one and can get it to work (which means also having a keyboard and monitor for it), and if I didn't remove said computer's hard drive prior to mothballing the machine, then I may be able to copy from 5.25" to 3.5", then install a 3.5" floppy drive on a modern computer. Or I could copy from 5.25" to hard drive, then move the hard drive to a modern PC.

This is all chancy. There are a whole lot of things that could go wrong, not the least of which is that the floppies themselves could be unreadable after so many years. Magnetic media doesn't keep forever, and these book boxes of mine have been stored in far from idyllic conditions.

Oh well. This is another project for a future date... when I'm living in the new house. Maybe sometime next year...


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