On 2024-01-15 16:12, James wrote: > I suspect it is fruitless. > The time to convert them was 50 years ago. :-) > > https://superuser.com/questions/344682/reading-old-5-25-floppies
Dunno about 50 years... I certainly had some in the early 80s for the Commodore PET 2001, but they were lower format diskettes. Most of the ones I have are HD from the early 90s to early 2000s (so only half that). I have 4 large boxes of floppies (both sizes) that I'm keeping until I have the time to rescue any useful information, or give up and toss them. I'll use that info from the last jitsi meeting about low-resource distros to find a live USB distro to boot... And that brings up a vague recollection that early machines with USB didn't have the ability to boot from them... :-/ slainte mhath, RGB -- Richard Guy Briggs -- ~\ -- ~\ <hpv.tricolour.ca> <www.TriColour.ca> -- \___ o \@ @ Ride yer bike! Ottawa, ON, CANADA -- Lo_>__M__\\/\%__\\/\% Vote! -- <greenparty.ca>_____GTVS6#790__(*)__(*)________(*)(*)_________________ To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscr...@linux-ottawa.org To get help send a blank message to linux+h...@linux-ottawa.org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org
