[ale] Plagued by stacks of old floppies. I found the cure

[Michael Trausch]

Heh.

People come to me all the time with floppy disks that they need data pulled
from. Usually with files that need to be converted from insanely old
formats, too. Microsoft Works (3.0 and prior) seem to be popular, I find
myself every now and again (and at present!) pulling data from old floppy
disks (often with bad sectors) and also trying to convert it.

I usually then give the floppies back and put the stuff on a Flash drive so
that they are able to have it in something that today's computers are able
to read. Ah, ancient data.

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On Sep 6, 2010 12:06 AM, "Joshua" <jrtroberts at gmail.com> wrote:
> Do you find that when you clean out your closet or your computer dungeon
> you have to sort through several stacks of useless old floppies? Want
> to be a walking fashion nerd? Then here is your cure, The floppy disk bag.
>
> http://www.instructables.com/id/Floppy-Disk-Bag/
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