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  • H HobbyProggy

    OriginalGriff wrote:

    general failure reading drive A

    What a poor General when he's named Failure. But at least he was reading drive A!

    Rules for the FOSW ![^]

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    Mark_Wallace
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    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!

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      OriginalGriff
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      No, he's 'Murican: he's with the NSA.

      Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

      "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
      "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt

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      • N Nagy Vilmos

        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

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        glennPattonWork3
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        Just as well it wasn't an acoustic coupler, can see why directors liked them!

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          Enjoy...[^]

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          Slacker007
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          :thumbsup:

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          • G glennPattonWork3

            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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            KarstenK
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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

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            • K KarstenK

              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

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              den2k88
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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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              • G glennPattonWork3

                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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                Chris Quinn
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                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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                • G glennPattonWork3

                  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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                  MT_
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                  glennPattonInThePUB wrote:

                  when the earth was hot cold (well early 90's)

                  FTFY *effect of global warming

                  Thanks, Milind

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                  • G glennPattonWork3

                    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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                    PIEBALDconsult
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                    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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                    • G glennPattonWork3

                      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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                      Sander Rossel
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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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                      • Sander RosselS Sander Rossel

                        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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                        glennPattonWork3
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                        :thumbsup:

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                        • G glennPattonWork3

                          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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                          Plamen Dragiyski
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                          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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                          • D den2k88

                            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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                            Gaz5700
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                            And I will raise you a DOS 2.11 (on 360k 5.25" floppy)

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                              And I will raise you a DOS 2.11 (on 360k 5.25" floppy)

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                              Tipton Tyler
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                              Still have a stack of punch cards from my Ph.D. thesis.

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                              • G glennPattonWork3

                                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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                                maze3
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                                (someone else must have already posted this) - USB floppy drive

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                                • M maze3

                                  (someone else must have already posted this) - USB floppy drive

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                                  glennPattonWork3
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                                  That's what got used, it was finding the darn thing...

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                                  • G glennPattonWork3

                                    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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                                    cabowaboaddict
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                                    try recovering data from a 21Mb 3.5" floptical...

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                                    • C cabowaboaddict

                                      try recovering data from a 21Mb 3.5" floptical...

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                                      glennPattonWork3
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                                      Oh, someone bought them? :omg:

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                                      • G glennPattonWork3

                                        Oh, someone bought them? :omg:

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                                        cabowaboaddict
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                                        yep, I have one that was retired at our office years ago... still works, have the box, all the docs, and a dozen or so disks.

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                                        • T Tipton Tyler

                                          Still have a stack of punch cards from my Ph.D. thesis.

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                                          TNCaver
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                                          I have my punch tape from my tech school's PDP-11. :)

                                          If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.

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