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

[Geoffrey Myers]

On 09/07/2010 12:00 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> Hmm. so the older the geek, the more "floppy knowledge" they have.

Seems to me, the older the geek, the LARGER the floppy....

>
> On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Richard Faulkner <rfaulkner at 34thprs.org
> <mailto: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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>     *From*: Lightner, Jeff <jlightner at water.com
>     <mailto:%22Lightner,%20Jeff%22%20%3cjlightner at water.com%3e>>
>     *Reply-to*: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
>     <ale at ale.org <mailto:ale at ale.org>>
>     *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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>     [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org <mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org>] *On Behalf
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>     *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
>     <mailto: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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