Re: [FRIAM] Floppy disks still live. Sorta

2022-09-14 Thread Prof David West
My very first PC was a Xerox 820 with a cabled IBM selectric as a printer and (2) 8" floppy drives. davew On Wed, Sep 14, 2022, at 9:58 AM, Steve Smith wrote: > When Mary moved here she had a collection of 3.5" floppies with her > early poetry on them...  she wasn't sure what she had and

Re: [FRIAM] Floppy disks still live. Sorta

2022-09-14 Thread Steve Smith
When Mary moved here she had a collection of 3.5" floppies with her early poetry on them...  she wasn't sure what she had and hadn't had a floppy drive to look at them with since the 90s.   As it turned out I had a USB floppy reader I had bought to help someone else recover their history and

[FRIAM] Floppy disks still live. Sorta

2022-09-14 Thread Tom Johnson
https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/we-spoke-with-the-last-person-standing-in-the-floppy-disk-business/#:post_86454 === Tom Johnson Inst. for Analytic Journalism Santa Fe, New Mexico 505-577-6482 === -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -..