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  • Who here still have floppy disk(ette)s?

    From Ant@21:1/5 to All on Fri Apr 14 01:30:37 2023
    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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  • From Rod Speed@21:1/5 to Ant on Sat Apr 15 03:40:31 2023
    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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  • From Marco Moock@21:1/5 to All on Sat Apr 15 19:49:13 2023
    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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  • From Jeff Jonas@21:1/5 to All on Mon May 1 10:07:14 2023
    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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