David, You probably know this already, but you can walk into any electronics store and buy a 16GB USB thumb drive for 20 dollars that will hold the equivalent of 136 LS-120 floppies. You might be better served by moving your collection to a more modern media.
Remember that magnetic media (disks, tapes) have a limited shelf life. In particular, I've had a lot of problem with floppies written with one drive not being readable on another. Thanks, -JP On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 8:42 AM, David C. Partridge < [email protected]> wrote: > Internal 3.5" LS-120 Superdisk floppy drive (ideally with black front, but > ...). I'm after one in the standard 3.5" floppy drive size, not laptop. > > The one in my main system just died :-(. I have a lot of stuff on LS-120 > disks, and while I can read them on a system in another room and network > the > files it is rather a PITA (plus it is probably only a matter of time until > that one dies too). > > I will remove the dead one and look for any obvious problems, but I'm not > optimistic. > > I am in the UK not the USA by the way. > > Please respond off-list. > > Dave > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
