whilst moving a lab at GSU to a new building, I ran across a box of 12" floppies and the drive they fit in. The drive was probably 30 pounds. Electrical connectors were large enough that they could have been alligator clips. The drive and the floppies joined the contents of 4 punch card file cabinets in the dumpster. The cabinets were reused as optics storage cabinets.<br>
<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Jim Kinney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com">jim.kinney@gmail.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;">
Hmm. so the older the geek, the more "floppy knowledge" they have.<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Richard Faulkner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rfaulkner@34thprs.org" target="_blank">rfaulkner@34thprs.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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5.25? How about 8 inchers...now THOSE were floppies! (Dating myself like the legacy hardware I support...)<div><br>
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<font size="2"><font color="#000080">That looks like more of a “case” than a “bag”. To make a “bag” you’d need real “floppies” (i.e. the 5.25 inch kind).</font></font><br>
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<b><font size="2">Subject:</font></b><font size="2"> Re: [ale] Plagued by stacks of old floppies. I found the cure</font><br>
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People come to me all the time with floppy disks that they need data pulled from. Usually with files that need to be converted from insanely old formats, too. Microsoft Works (3.0 and prior) seem to be popular, I find myself every now and again (and at present!) pulling data from old floppy disks (often with bad sectors) and also trying to convert it.<br>
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I usually then give the floppies back and put the stuff on a Flash drive so that they are able to have it in something that today's 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" target="_blank">jrtroberts@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Do you find that when you clean out your closet or your computer dungeon <br>
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> to be a walking fashion nerd? Then here is your cure, The floppy disk bag.<br>
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