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

[Lightner, Jeff]

The size of the floppy doesn't matter when the memory goes.   This is
probably the only time a lack of "RAM" occurs as a result of a "floppy".

 

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Greg
Clifton
Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2010 1:29 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
Subject: Re: [ale] Plagued by stacks of old floppies. I found the cure

 

Not only that, as everybody knows, size does matter ;-)

On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Geoffrey Myers
<lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote:

On 09/07/2010 12:00 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> Hmm. so the older the geek, the more "floppy knowledge" they have.

Seems to me, the older the geek, the LARGER the floppy....


>
> On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Richard Faulkner
<rfaulkner at 34thprs.org

> <mailto:rfaulkner at 34thprs.org>> wrote:
>
>     5.25?  How about 8 inchers...now THOSE were floppies!  (Dating
>     myself like the legacy hardware I support...)
>
>
>
>     -----Original Message-----
>     *From*: Lightner, Jeff <jlightner at water.com

>     <mailto:%22Lightner,%20Jeff%22%20%3cjlightner at water.com
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>     *Reply-to*: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
>     <ale at ale.org <mailto:ale at ale.org>>
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>
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>     *Subject*: Re: [ale] Plagued by stacks of old floppies. I found
the cure
>     *Date*: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 09:18:00 -0400
>
>     That looks like more of a "case" than a "bag".  To make a "bag"
>     you'd need real "floppies" (i.e. the 5.25 inch kind).
>
>
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>     [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org <mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org>] *On
Behalf

>     Of *Michael Trausch
>     *Sent:* Monday, September 06, 2010 10:29 PM
>     *To:* Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
>     *Subject:* Re: [ale] Plagued by stacks of old floppies. I found
the cure
>
>
>
>
>     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.
>
>     --
>     Sent from my HTC Dream---Running Froyo!
>     Thanks, @cyanogen!
>
>     On Sep 6, 2010 12:06 AM, "Joshua" <jrtroberts at gmail.com

>     <mailto: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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Until later, Geoffrey

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