Unfortunately they're probably unreadable. ANSI standards for data
retention on floppy disks is an amazingly short period of time.
Measured in months if IIRC.
No motherboard made in probably the last 8 years has the requisite
hardware to actually operate a floppy on it's own. I was going to say
that there were no PCI floppy controller cards made commercially but
dammed if someone doesn't sell one now available on Amazon, only $25.00,
plus shipping.
It's probably not worth doing, the disk has probably degraded to the
point it's no longer readable, or writable for that matter.
Unless you want to have a display of obsolete technology, I think they'd
make fine rifle targets.
On 3/1/2019 1:09 AM, John wrote:
A couple of 5-1/4 inch and a couple of 3-1/2 inch.
On 2/28/2019 16:37:20, [email protected] wrote:
That depends are they 5 1/4 or 8 inch?
On February 28, 2019 12:31:20 PM PST, John <[email protected]>
wrote:
In my most recent round of housecleaning & de-cluttering I've
discovered several
old floppy disk wallets.
Any suggestions for alternative uses now that I no longer use floppy
disks?
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