Thanks - yes indeed, ebay - but I do have a 5.25" floppy drive. It's
mounted in a 1990's desktop that exists for no other purpose than to
convert 5.25" floppies. I will get rid of it just as soon as I'm sure I
have no more.
I think I even have a loose 5.25" unit that I would donate to Howard S.
if he drops me a line :)
A lot of these floppies fail to read, I suspect because they were
formatted with some strange geometry or have the wrong capacity or
something. But I do get stuff off some of them. Whether it's worth the
effort I couldn't say.
Among the 3.5" collection I've been converting were a bunch of Slackware
disksets from my first install. Downloaded 60+ images onto a Sun
workstation at school (a 3/60 I believe) and loaded them one by one onto
my 486. A good moment of nostalgia, then in the trash they went.
On 10/29/19 3:49 PM, Emery Rudolph wrote:
Hi Judah,
You know you can find 5.25 floppy drives on Ebay. They have lots of them
starting around $25.
I cannot imagine anything that's been hanging around this long without
being accessed holds any data worth the effort, but half the fun is
trying. :-)
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On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 12:50 PM Moshe M. Katz <mmk...@umd.edu
<mailto:mmk...@umd.edu>> wrote:
There was a time when the first place I would look for an 8" floppy
drive would have been your parents' basement.
I miss talking about electronics and computers with your father.
I don't know if/when/where/how DoD runs surplus property sales, but
if they do, that's where I'd look:
https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/25/20931800/usa-nuclear-8-inch-floppy-disk-solid-state-transition
Moshe
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On Sat, Oct 26, 2019 at 7:48 PM Judah Milgram <milg...@cgpp.com
<mailto:milg...@cgpp.com>> wrote:
If you can find a 5.25" USB floppy drive let me know - I want
one! I
never did find one.
But I might be able to help you out with an actual drive. You'll
need an
old CPU with an FD drive and the appropriate cable. I've been
migrating
my data too and find that I have a low rate of success with the
5.25"
floppies. But it's still better than nothing.
Contact me offline.
FWIW I have a 3.5" USB floppy drive and it works surprisingly well.
Pretty inexpensive too.
My data migration project makes me soooo happy that floppies are
a thing
of the past.
Related to this: I inherited about a dozen 8" floppies
apparently with
data. Anyone out there have a drive?
Judah
On 10/25/19 5:39 PM, Peter Teuben wrote:
> you can get USB floppy drives, i've had a friend 1 or 2 years
ago come
> to me solving their old data problem. worked just fine.
>
> On 10/25/19 11:35 PM, Howard Sanner wrote:
>> Is this thing still on?
>>
>> Does anyone know where I might get a working 5.25" floppy
drive,
>> preferably a 1.2 MB drive?
>>
>> I am trying to help a friend migrate a database that it took
him many
>> years to create to more modern media. I suspect there are data
>> conversion services that can do this, but, at least for the
moment,
>> we're going to try the do it yourself route. Re-creating the
database
>> from source documents would be impractical to impossible,
even if my
>> friend's health permitted trying, which it does not.
>>
>> Thanks for any ideas you may have.
>>
>> Howard Sanner
>> linux-au...@terrier.ampexguy.com
<mailto:linux-au...@terrier.ampexguy.com>
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