Wow, assuming all goes well, that sounds pretty exciting, David. Good
luck and have fun accessing all that old stuff.
My computer was mis-behaving very badly for a few weeks, but now
(mysteriously) it seems fine again, so I will finally take this
opportunity to wish all of you a blessed 2017.
Also, I had an interesting conversation with someone yesterday who
lost his sight about seven years ago, and was previously an instructor
and a something else in the computer field, using primarily the Linnox
(or Lennox) operating system. He said that there doesn't seem to be
much support for this operating system in the adaptive technology
field. He also said that he feels Windows 10 is dangerous because of
how easy it now is for Microsoft to access our info. He feels that
Windows in general, is very virus-prone, but that it has gotten worse
after Windows 7.
Any thoughts about all of this?
Jan
On 1/13/17, David Goldfield <dgoldfield1211@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In our den I have a ton of old 3.5 inch floppy disks that I've usedYou are invited to visit the moderator's Web site at WWW.DavidGoldfield.Info
since the 1990s. Since I got my latest computer in late 2013, I haven't
been able to access them since my Dell has no floppy drive and none of
the computers from my current and previous job had a floppy drive. I
finally decided that I was going to do something about this once and for
all and, at the end of the year, I ordered a USB 3.5-inch floppy disk
from Amazon which didn't even cost me fifteen dollars. I now have it and
plan to start going through my old floppies this weekend, with the goal
of archiving whatever I might find to be of value. It's a really weird
thing to know that I have access to such a thing on my Windows machine.
The drive reminds me of the second edition of the Blazie Engineering
disk drive, as the dimensions are almost identical. If anybody has any
last-minute warnings or bits of advice about using a 3.5 inch drive with
Windows 10, now is the time to advise me. <grin>
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