My friend, thankfully, has already progressed to the 1.44MB, 3.5" diskettes era when the now-archeological PC was new. No 5.25" diskettes. No 8" diskettes.
On Fri, 2021-12-24 at 18:06 +0200, Uri Bruck wrote: > Floppies like these? > > https://fibersiv.net/threads/pieceinfo.html > > On 22.12.2021 21:27, Omer Zak wrote: > > I have a friend who has a PC, which got stuck in the late 1990's. > > This > > Ethernet-less and Internet-less PC has old (circa 1997) RedHat > > Linux > > installed on it and it uses floppy disks (diskettes) for backups. > > > > Now the floppy disk drive seems to have gone out of order and my > > friend > > will need to read his diskettes in a modern PC as well as transfer > > to > > it the contents of his hard disk (presumably connected via IDE or > > whatever was available in the antediluvian period before the Big > > Dotcom > > Crash of 2000. > > > > 1. Are there any floppy disk drives with USB connection for reading > > those diskettes? > > 2. If one needs to temporarily connect an old hard disk (not having > > a > > modern SATA interface) to a modern PC, what solutions are there? -- "Prior to capitalism, the way people amassed great wealth was by looting, plundering and enslaving their fellow man. Capitalism made it possible to become wealthy by serving your fellow man." - Walter E. Williams My own blog is at https://tddpirate.zak.co.il/ My opinions, as expressed in this E-mail message, are mine alone. They do not represent the official policy of any organization with which I may be affiliated in any way. WARNING TO SPAMMERS: at https://www.zak.co.il/spamwarning.html _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
