I have a floppy drive with USB connection, but no disks either. LOL
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On 1/14/2017 9:40 PM, David Goldfield wrote:
5.25 inch disks? Oh my, I haven't had a 5.25 drive since 1999 when we got rid of our 486 and replaced it with a Windows 98 machine. I last saw one of those disks years ago at ASB, although by that time all of their computers were replaced and none of them had those older drives. Wow, brings back memories. I wonder if there are even 5.25 drives with USB connections. I'd love to see one of those, although I doubt I have a single one of those old disks.
On 1/13/2017 11:05 PM, Merv Keck wrote:
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!
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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>