Hi,
It's funny you say that years back now I trashed some 3.5 floppies that had
all my university papers on them too it'd have been fun to have saved some
of those as well.
Robin
-----Original Message-----
From: Merv Keck
Sent: Friday, January 13, 2017 11:05 PM
To: blind-philly-comp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-philly-comp] Re: Quick Personal Update/Going Retro in 2017
With a New 3.5 inch Floppy Drive
David,
Good luck with your archiving. I have one of those here in a drawer.
Although I got it for a Windows 7 machine so I don't know if it would work
on these windows 10 machines and I don't have any floppies around anymore,
laughs! However, it reminds me of the hundreds of 5.25 floppies I threw away
when I finally junked my old Apple 2e that I used for 11 years. I wrote my
Masters Theses on that machine. Pity I never had a way to back all of that
lovely data up before junking it. Laughs!
-----Original Message-----
From: blind-philly-comp-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:blind-philly-comp-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Goldfield
Sent: Friday, January 13, 2017 4:00 PM
To: Philadelphia Computer Users Group for the Blind and Visually Impaired
<blind-philly-comp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [blind-philly-comp] Quick Personal Update/Going Retro in 2017 With
a New 3.5 inch Floppy Drive
In our den I have a ton of old 3.5 inch floppy disks that I've used 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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