I cant believe i still have these disks
Sunday, September 28, 2008 by jpmurph1 | Discussion: Personal Computing
anybody remember the old 5 1/4 floppy disks, big and cumbersome, well cleaning the basement yesterday, came across a box with a couple of 5 1/4 drives and hundreds of these disks, just brought back some memories, i am tempted to install the drive and check out the contents of all of these ( of course they are not labeled)
Reply #2 Sunday, September 28, 2008 11:43 AM
What operating system? I have a bunch for my Apple ][e that still work.
Reply #3 Sunday, September 28, 2008 8:50 PM
Zu....can you copy them and send me a few?...My ][c needs something....I have no mac-formatted floppies....
Reply #4 Sunday, September 28, 2008 8:59 PM
I still have Windows(just Windows)on 5 1/4 disk, a whole bunch of them!
Reply #6 Monday, September 29, 2008 1:29 AM
I've never had a 5 1/4" floppy... but I probably still got a few old stone tablets with original heiroglyphics laying around.
Reply #7 Monday, September 29, 2008 7:39 AM
Still have my AutoCAD 11 & 12 disks, DOS 5,6 disks (kept them thinking MSDOS might make fly on a pentium) & Windows 3.11 for Workgroups disks.....probably kill a floppy drive if I tried using them.
Reply #8 Monday, September 29, 2008 7:57 AM
well i guess i am not the only one that kinda saves everything (pertaining to pc's) and if i do install this drive and check out these disks, then i know that i have too much time on my hands, oh and to top it off, i also have at least 50 100 mb zip disks, which i know i will never use, zips arent that old but, with technology today, why would i bother, and 100mb is nothing these days
Reply #10 Monday, September 29, 2008 8:32 AM
"Don't copy... Don't copy that floppy!"
Oh no, why did you remind me of that song!
Reply #11 Monday, September 29, 2008 12:09 PM
ED (Exacerbated Disk-droop), eh? Now there's medication you can take for that.
Reply #12 Monday, September 29, 2008 12:20 PM
have a fully functional commodore 64 in the garage with the 5.1/4 drives and discs, tapes and tape drives.
Reply #13 Monday, September 29, 2008 9:10 PM
Have a fully functional Atari 1200XL in the closet with the 5 1/4 drives and discs, tapes and tape drives.
Reply #14 Monday, September 29, 2008 9:19 PM
We have a plant that was / is running a sparc 20 that is now 12+ years old. the hard drive died last week.
They brought in all the parts..
Sparc 20, w/1.0 gb hard drive internal, and a 2.0 gb scsi external, plus a 1/4" 250 MB tape drive.
I replaced the 2 drives with (2) 9gb hard drives
The tapes were dated 6/15/1996. The 1/4" drive was toast, but in a box in the back of the office was a brand new 1/4" drive. (box had a date on it of Jan/98) Used it to read the tapes and restore the system back from the dead. Then we were able to pull some backups off some 3 1/2" External Articon floppy drive for the source codes for their controllers.
I was AMAZED that all this crap worked. 12+ years and the tapes worked, and the floppys worked too. Just amazing.
We still have some 8" floppys in the store room, along with some nice little 10MB (yes that MB) drives that used to run entire plants.
Oh yeah.. forgot to mention that we looked thru the logs to see when the last time this machine was shut down, it was 2005. And before that was 2003. Now you talk about a workhorse.
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Reply #1 Sunday, September 28, 2008 11:42 AM
At work, mainly as back-up, we have the programs for our 2 CNC machines on 5 1/4 floppy and a couple computers that have a 5 1/4 drive. Actually still have them on Data tape as well and the Data tape reader still almost works.