John Whittingham wrote: >> If you had an "archival" 5 1/2-inch floppy, where >> would you read it now, less than 20 years later? >> >> Suppose you could find a drive, how would your >> computer interpret a vintage WordStar document? Heck, >> even the current MSWord for the Mac can't open Word >> 1.05 documents (and good luck finding a compatible >> floppy drive!). > >I think I've got one if anyone wants it -:)
I have 5-1/4 floppy drive (I don't think there was a 5-1/2 drive) in my basement! We still use lots of 3-1/2 floppies at the university because they're cheap and hold enough data for simple word processing documents and spreadsheets. As for software compatibility, I think it would be pretty easy to strip the ASCII text out of most old formats. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
