Old Tech...
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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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That's what got used, it was finding the darn thing...
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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...
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try recovering data from a 21Mb 3.5" floptical...
Oh, someone bought them? :omg:
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Oh, someone bought them? :omg:
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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Still have a stack of punch cards from my Ph.D. thesis.
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That's what floppies are for. Excellent.
I may not last forever but the mess I leave behind certainly will.
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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!
One of the big problems that I find is that nobody seems to manufacture a PCI card to support the floppy interface. IDE sure. But not floppy. If the motherboard doesn't support it, then you're sh*t out of luck.
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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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One of the big problems that I find is that nobody seems to manufacture a PCI card to support the floppy interface. IDE sure. But not floppy. If the motherboard doesn't support it, then you're sh*t out of luck.
Yep, that's where I'm glad I had the foresight to buy a USB floppy, it's just finding the dang thing... :rolleyes:
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One of the big problems that I find is that nobody seems to manufacture a PCI card to support the floppy interface. IDE sure. But not floppy. If the motherboard doesn't support it, then you're sh*t out of luck.
There are motherboards that still have IDE interface. Search for "industrial motherboard with IDE." You can also find ones with ISA slots. (That reminds me, I should update my 1989 DOS-based program that controls a process so it can use a USB version of the ISA I/O card....)
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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
OS2 Warp anyone?
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