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Who here still have floppy disk(ette)s?

Started byant@zimage.comANT (Ant)
First post2023-04-14 01:30 +0000
Last post2023-04-15 19:49 +0200
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  Who here still have floppy disk(ette)s? ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2023-04-14 01:30 +0000
    Re: Who here still have floppy disk(ette)s? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2023-04-15 03:40 +1000
      Re: Who here still have floppy disk(ette)s? jeffj@panix.com (Jeff Jonas) - 2023-05-01 10:07 +0000
    Re: Who here still have floppy disk(ette)s? Marco Moock <mo01@posteo.de> - 2023-04-15 19:49 +0200

#8361 — Who here still have floppy disk(ette)s?

Fromant@zimage.comANT (Ant)
Date2023-04-14 01:30 +0000
SubjectWho here still have floppy disk(ette)s?
Message-ID<Dumdnfd7pf8gMaX5nZ2dnZfqnPSdnZ2d@earthlink.com>
My colony still have IBM PC 3.5" disks (e.g., MS Word for DOS, Windows 
3.1, drivers like for SB16, etc.) from the 90s. I don't even use them! 
:O
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#8363

From"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com>
Date2023-04-15 03:40 +1000
Message-ID<op.13ejdt2pbyq249@pvr2.lan>
In reply to#8361
Ant <ant@zimage.comant> wrote

> My colony still have IBM PC 3.5" disks

I have those, 5.25" IBM PC and Commodore 64 floppys
and 8" DEC floppys.

> (e.g., MS Word for DOS, Windows  3.1,

I have those and OS2 as well.

> drivers like for SB16, etc.) from the 90s.

> I don't even use them!

  Me neither. I still have all the drives and still
have machines that can use them including
the Commodre 64 drive.

> :O

This is no laughing matter antboy.

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#8371

Fromjeffj@panix.com (Jeff Jonas)
Date2023-05-01 10:07 +0000
Message-ID<u2o30i$8la$1@reader2.panix.com>
In reply to#8363
>> My colony still have IBM PC 3.5" disks

> I have those, 5.25" IBM PC
> and Commodore 64 floppys and 8" DEC floppys.

I volunteer at the NJ Vintage Computer Museum
(a member of the Vintage Computer Federation)
    https://vcfed.org/
so all sizes and formats are still in use.

Admittedly, many well used systems
use solid-state drive emulators such as Fujinet
    https://fujinet.online/

I personally still have 8" DSDD drives running my Z80 CP/M system.

--Jeffrey Jonas
jeffj@panix(dot)com
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#8368

FromMarco Moock <mo01@posteo.de>
Date2023-04-15 19:49 +0200
Message-ID<u1eo2p$242hc$4@dont-email.me>
In reply to#8361
Am 14.04.2023 um 01:30:37 Uhr schrieb Ant:

> My colony still have IBM PC 3.5" disks (e.g., MS Word for DOS,
> Windows 3.1, drivers like for SB16, etc.) from the 90s. I don't even
> use them! :O

I still have them, but I never used them for real productive work.
I got the first one in 2012.

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