[ale] Plagued by stacks of old floppies. I found the cure

[Jim Kinney]

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.



On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hmm. so the older the geek, the more "floppy knowledge" they have.
>
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> On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Richard Faulkner <rfaulkner at 34thprs.org>wrote:
>
>>  5.25?  How about 8 inchers...now THOSE were floppies!  (Dating myself
>> like the legacy hardware I support...)
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> *From*: Lightner, Jeff <jlightner at water.com<%22Lightner,%20Jeff%22%20%3cjlightner at water.com%3e>
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>> *Reply-to*: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux! <ale at ale.org>
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>> *Subject*: Re: [ale] Plagued by stacks of old floppies. I found the cure
>> *Date*: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 09:18:00 -0400
>>
>> 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).
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>>  *From:*ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] *On Behalf Of *Michael
>> Trausch
>> *Sent:* Monday, September 06, 2010 10:29 PM
>> *To:* Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
>> *Subject:* Re: [ale] Plagued by stacks of old floppies. I found the cure
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>>
>> Heh.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> --
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>> Thanks, @cyanogen!
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>> On Sep 6, 2010 12:06 AM, "Joshua" <jrtroberts at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Do you find that when you clean out your closet or your computer dungeon
>>
>> > you have to sort through several stacks of useless old floppies? Want
>> > to be a walking fashion nerd? Then here is your cure, The floppy disk
>> bag.
>> >
>> > http://www.instructables.com/id/Floppy-Disk-Bag/
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