Old Tech...
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Hi All, Earlier Today I used a bit of tech that is missing from most modern PC's...the floppy drive!... I must admit with today's machines and the Wacky Wide Web pretty much all of the things you could need are on the web. I needed a file that was an old Word Perfect document I had typed when the earth was hot (well early 90's) the copy I had backed up on CD failed. The worst part was trying to find the floppy and then the USB floppy disc drive. I feel like Indiana Jones!
The last time I needed a floppy, I found an old drive, added it to the PC, inserted the disk, and...got "general failure reading drive A". :sigh:
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I actually miss the sound of floppy drives initialising.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The last time I needed a floppy, I found an old drive, added it to the PC, inserted the disk, and...got "general failure reading drive A". :sigh:
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
OriginalGriff wrote:
general failure reading drive A
What a poor General when he's named Failure. But at least he was reading drive A!
if(this.signature != "")
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
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Brilliant!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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OriginalGriff wrote:
general failure reading drive A
What a poor General when he's named Failure. But at least he was reading drive A!
if(this.signature != "")
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}It's pronounced "fell-yure"; he's French.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It's pronounced "fell-yure"; he's French.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
No, he's 'Murican: he's with the NSA.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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We were watching a film at the weekend, name withheld for legal reasons, and in it was a scene that involved someone using a dial-up modem. Both daughters were "de elephant dat?" :laugh:
veni bibi saltavi
Just as well it wasn't an acoustic coupler, can see why directors liked them!
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Hi All, Earlier Today I used a bit of tech that is missing from most modern PC's...the floppy drive!... I must admit with today's machines and the Wacky Wide Web pretty much all of the things you could need are on the web. I needed a file that was an old Word Perfect document I had typed when the earth was hot (well early 90's) the copy I had backed up on CD failed. The worst part was trying to find the floppy and then the USB floppy disc drive. I feel like Indiana Jones!
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I have a lot of disks, but no drive to read the data. But some is really to old: Installation disks for Windows 3.1. X|
Press F1 for help or google it. Greetings from Germany
I raise: DOS 3.2.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
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Hi All, Earlier Today I used a bit of tech that is missing from most modern PC's...the floppy drive!... I must admit with today's machines and the Wacky Wide Web pretty much all of the things you could need are on the web. I needed a file that was an old Word Perfect document I had typed when the earth was hot (well early 90's) the copy I had backed up on CD failed. The worst part was trying to find the floppy and then the USB floppy disc drive. I feel like Indiana Jones!
Floppy disks were important in the Hillsbrough Enquiry in the UK - see point 4.[^]
========================================================= I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka. =========================================================
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Hi All, Earlier Today I used a bit of tech that is missing from most modern PC's...the floppy drive!... I must admit with today's machines and the Wacky Wide Web pretty much all of the things you could need are on the web. I needed a file that was an old Word Perfect document I had typed when the earth was hot (well early 90's) the copy I had backed up on CD failed. The worst part was trying to find the floppy and then the USB floppy disc drive. I feel like Indiana Jones!
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Hi All, Earlier Today I used a bit of tech that is missing from most modern PC's...the floppy drive!... I must admit with today's machines and the Wacky Wide Web pretty much all of the things you could need are on the web. I needed a file that was an old Word Perfect document I had typed when the earth was hot (well early 90's) the copy I had backed up on CD failed. The worst part was trying to find the floppy and then the USB floppy disc drive. I feel like Indiana Jones!
This PC has a 3.5" and a 5.25" floppy drive. :-D But it can't use both at the same time. :sigh: Oh, and a 56K MODEM.
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Hi All, Earlier Today I used a bit of tech that is missing from most modern PC's...the floppy drive!... I must admit with today's machines and the Wacky Wide Web pretty much all of the things you could need are on the web. I needed a file that was an old Word Perfect document I had typed when the earth was hot (well early 90's) the copy I had backed up on CD failed. The worst part was trying to find the floppy and then the USB floppy disc drive. I feel like Indiana Jones!
Why we need floppy drives again[^] :D
Read my (free) ebook Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly. Visit my blog at Sander's bits - Writing the code you need. Or read my articles here on CodeProject.
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. — Edsger W. Dijkstra
Regards, Sander
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Why we need floppy drives again[^] :D
Read my (free) ebook Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly. Visit my blog at Sander's bits - Writing the code you need. Or read my articles here on CodeProject.
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. — Edsger W. Dijkstra
Regards, Sander
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Hi All, Earlier Today I used a bit of tech that is missing from most modern PC's...the floppy drive!... I must admit with today's machines and the Wacky Wide Web pretty much all of the things you could need are on the web. I needed a file that was an old Word Perfect document I had typed when the earth was hot (well early 90's) the copy I had backed up on CD failed. The worst part was trying to find the floppy and then the USB floppy disc drive. I feel like Indiana Jones!
Old tech? I still have floppy on my desktop machine. I like it and I'm still using it (yeah, I have diskettes). P.S. (machine has 5.9 experience index in windows 7).
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I raise: DOS 3.2.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
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Still have a stack of punch cards from my Ph.D. thesis.
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Hi All, Earlier Today I used a bit of tech that is missing from most modern PC's...the floppy drive!... I must admit with today's machines and the Wacky Wide Web pretty much all of the things you could need are on the web. I needed a file that was an old Word Perfect document I had typed when the earth was hot (well early 90's) the copy I had backed up on CD failed. The worst part was trying to find the floppy and then the USB floppy disc drive. I feel like Indiana Jones!
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Hi All, Earlier Today I used a bit of tech that is missing from most modern PC's...the floppy drive!... I must admit with today's machines and the Wacky Wide Web pretty much all of the things you could need are on the web. I needed a file that was an old Word Perfect document I had typed when the earth was hot (well early 90's) the copy I had backed up on CD failed. The worst part was trying to find the floppy and then the USB floppy disc drive. I feel like Indiana Jones!
try recovering data from a 21Mb 3.5" floptical...
