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

[Lightner, Jeff]

Actually I used to work on the IBM System 34 (which got upgraded to a
System 36) back in the early 80s.  Not only did it have 8" floppies it
had an auto-loader that held 10 of them which I thought was uber-cool at
the time.

 

I wonder what one could make out of the old Datapoint 5 MB disk packs? 

 

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jim
Kinney
Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2010 12:00 PM
To: rfaulkner at 34thprs.org; Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run
Linux!
Subject: Re: [ale] Plagued by stacks of old floppies. I found the cure

 

Hmm. so the older the geek, the more "floppy knowledge" they have.

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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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


 

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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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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