Paul,

 

I guess I’m going to have to start prowling the local electronics recycling
events here – I see a LOT of people throwing away computers.  I should be
able to grab a half-dozen or so and hopefully cobble together at least ONE
working machine, I think. <wink>

 

I think I still have an unopened box of 5¼” floppies around here somewhere –
I used them with my Commodore 64 and Amiga machines, although the Amiga used
primarily 3½” floppies (the 5¼’s were for the DOS emulator).

 

  _____  

From: [email protected] On Behalf Of Paul Plack



You guys are just looking in the wrong place. You need to go computer
shopping at a landfill!

I have an old 386 SX 16 running DOS 6.2. I keep it around just for these
eventualities. I built it in the early 1990s from a motherboard cast off in
a law office upgrade. Still works great. I have an old DTMF dialer I wrote
in basic and compiled into an exe file, and it runs better on the older 28.8
modems.

 

I do worry about floppies becoming obsolete.

 

73,

Paul, AE4KR 

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