Not only that, as everybody knows, size does matter ;-)<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Geoffrey Myers <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lists@serioustechnology.com">lists@serioustechnology.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">On 09/07/2010 12:00 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
> Hmm. so the older the geek, the more "floppy knowledge" they have.<br>
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</div>Seems to me, the older the geek, the LARGER the floppy....<br>
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> On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Richard Faulkner <<a href="mailto:rfaulkner@34thprs.org">rfaulkner@34thprs.org</a><br>
</div><div class="im">> <mailto:<a href="mailto:rfaulkner@34thprs.org">rfaulkner@34thprs.org</a>>> wrote:<br>
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> 5.25? How about 8 inchers...now THOSE were floppies! (Dating<br>
> myself like the legacy hardware I support...)<br>
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> *Subject*: Re: [ale] Plagued by stacks of old floppies. I found the cure<br>
> *Date*: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 09:18:00 -0400<br>
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> That looks like more of a “case” than a “bag”. To make a “bag”<br>
> you’d need real “floppies” (i.e. the 5.25 inch kind).<br>
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> *Subject:* Re: [ale] Plagued by stacks of old floppies. I found the cure<br>
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> Heh.<br>
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> People come to me all the time with floppy disks that they need data<br>
> pulled from. Usually with files that need to be converted from<br>
> insanely old formats, too. Microsoft Works (3.0 and prior) seem to<br>
> be popular, I find myself every now and again (and at present!)<br>
> pulling data from old floppy disks (often with bad sectors) and also<br>
> trying to convert it.<br>
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> I usually then give the floppies back and put the stuff on a Flash<br>
> drive so that they are able to have it in something that today's<br>
> computers are able to read. Ah, ancient data.<br>
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> On Sep 6, 2010 12:06 AM, "Joshua" <<a href="mailto:jrtroberts@gmail.com">jrtroberts@gmail.com</a><br>
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> > Do you find that when you clean out your closet or your computer<br>
> dungeon<br>
> > you have to sort through several stacks of useless old floppies?<br>
> Want<br>
> > to be a walking fashion nerd? Then here is your cure, The floppy<br>
> disk bag.<br>
> ><br>
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> > <a href="http://www.instructables.com/id/Floppy-Disk-Bag/" target="_blank">http://www.instructables.com/id/Floppy-Disk-Bag/</a><br>
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