Turbo C, C++, objective C 1991
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PIEBALDconsult wrote:
I have both 5.25" and 3.5" drives, but I can only use one at a time.
I remember when machines came with 2 floppy drives, A and B, installed. That is the reason the default "hard drive" is the C drive. Seems so long ago.
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy. In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you. – Buddha Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
My first PC had one dual 3.5" / 5.25" drive. Sweeeet!
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Going through a recently deceased friends stuff. In box that I opened labeled Borland, I found manuals and 3.5 "floppy" disks for C, C++ and objective C along with a receipt for $70 bucks from local vendor that he bought stuff from. My estimation is it's worthless and I should just toss it into the stove. But you never now, it could be like great great aunt Jemima's fry pan from the 1800's and worth a few bucks. No one selling it on the inter-webs so I assume no value?
Rage against the narrative.
If the disks are that old, then they might not works anymore... At some points, I try to read many of the old ones that I have and maybe half of them were not readable anymore. I don't know if "original" disks were somewhat better than end-user disks (as it would be the case for pressed vs burned CDs). In particular, those disk were sensible to magnetic fields so if disks were stored too close of magnetic objects, then their live would be much shorter. Then as it is 16 bit stuff, you need an OS able to run that too. And the langage itself has changed a lot since then.
Philippe Mori
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My first PC had one dual 3.5" / 5.25" drive. Sweeeet!
My 4th PC had a 3.5" and an 8.0" FDD. Unfortunately, even after buggering around with the skew table, the 8.0" only held about a quarter of the data that the 3.5" disk would hold. Very disappointing at the time. It was sweet having 5.25" and 3.5" as you could read, see and install anything.
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Eggbert Bartholomew Bligh wrote:
I found manuals and 3.5 "floppy" disks for C, C++ and objective C
I have a box of floppy disks that I was looking at a few weeks ago and realized that I haven't had a floppy disk on any of my machines in many years. I don't even know where I would find one to be able to retrieve the data.
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy. In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you. – Buddha Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
I've got a 3.5" floppy drive with a USB cable. I can't for the life of me remember where I bought it, but they must be on e-bay. Indeed they are[^]! Mine's prettier than that one, so you might want to search further, if it's for an apple machine.
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I've got a 3.5" floppy drive with a USB cable. I can't for the life of me remember where I bought it, but they must be on e-bay. Indeed they are[^]! Mine's prettier than that one, so you might want to search further, if it's for an apple machine.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
Thanks for the link but I will most likely toss to floppies. There is only one I am even remotely interested in searching, but it contains data I haven't needed in the past 20 years.
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy. In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you. – Buddha Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
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Eggbert Bartholomew Bligh wrote:
I found manuals and 3.5 "floppy" disks for C, C++ and objective C
I have a box of floppy disks that I was looking at a few weeks ago and realized that I haven't had a floppy disk on any of my machines in many years. I don't even know where I would find one to be able to retrieve the data.
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy. In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you. – Buddha Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
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Going through a recently deceased friends stuff. In box that I opened labeled Borland, I found manuals and 3.5 "floppy" disks for C, C++ and objective C along with a receipt for $70 bucks from local vendor that he bought stuff from. My estimation is it's worthless and I should just toss it into the stove. But you never now, it could be like great great aunt Jemima's fry pan from the 1800's and worth a few bucks. No one selling it on the inter-webs so I assume no value?
Rage against the narrative.
Went through all my old software recently. Always an adventure. I bought it. I probably even used at one time or another. But I don't recall the first thing about Object Vision. ;P
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Eggbert Bartholomew Bligh wrote:
I found manuals and 3.5 "floppy" disks for C, C++ and objective C
I have a box of floppy disks that I was looking at a few weeks ago and realized that I haven't had a floppy disk on any of my machines in many years. I don't even know where I would find one to be able to retrieve the data.
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy. In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you. – Buddha Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
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Roger Wright wrote:
they're on 5 1/4" floppy disks, and I no longer have a drive to read them
I have one. :jig:
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I have a bare 5 1/4" drive, but no modern systems will let me attach it. Not even supported in most BIOSs anymore. Progress! :-D
My current system (circa 2009) does. 5.25" floppy drive support?[^]
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Going through a recently deceased friends stuff. In box that I opened labeled Borland, I found manuals and 3.5 "floppy" disks for C, C++ and objective C along with a receipt for $70 bucks from local vendor that he bought stuff from. My estimation is it's worthless and I should just toss it into the stove. But you never now, it could be like great great aunt Jemima's fry pan from the 1800's and worth a few bucks. No one selling it on the inter-webs so I assume no value?
Rage against the narrative.