floppy disks!

lucr...@florence.it

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Mar 27, 2023, 9:37:45 AM3/27/23

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Thank you to whomever mentioned the gizmo at amazon. I decided to
first find the disks, they were well hidden in a drawer, 26 of them in
all sorts of colours, with all sorts of scribblings over them so I
decided I had to know what was on them, gizmo ordered :)

songbird

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Mar 27, 2023, 11:02:49 AM3/27/23

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i have been coming across some 3&1/2" floppies (which aren't so
floppy as the 5&1/4" or 8&1/2" versions) but i don't care what's
on them enough to spend the $.

last year i did some work on some old hard drives and had bought
another gizmo i could plug them into, but it did not work for all
of the disks. that was ok, they were likely fried and even if they
weren't i didn't care. they were all going to the recycler anyways
and i hope they got ground up and reused somehow. i don't think
anyone would care about whatever i might have had on them anyways
(old win98, winxp, etc.).

one thing i do like about having the desktop machine and the
motherboard that can support plenty of USB headers is that if you
plug and unplug a lot of devices you can use the headers and fill
them up with cheap USB expansion boards and not wear out your hard-
wired USB ports that are right on the motherboard.

songbird

Michael Trew

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Mar 27, 2023, 11:17:18 AM3/27/23

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I think that was Bryan who sent the link to the USB external floppy
drive. I still have an internal floppy drive, but it's rarely used.

That woman who posted on here some time ago never mailed me those floppy
disks with her grand mother's recipes. I did e-mail her. I would have
extracted them for her, but oh well.

Dave Smith

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Mar 27, 2023, 11:45:20 AM3/27/23

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On 2023-03-27 10:46 a.m., songbird wrote:
> lucr...@florence.it wrote:
>>
>> Thank you to whomever mentioned the gizmo at amazon. I decided to
>> first find the disks, they were well hidden in a drawer, 26 of them in
>> all sorts of colours, with all sorts of scribblings over them so I
>> decided I had to know what was on them, gizmo ordered :)
>
> i have been coming across some 3&1/2" floppies (which aren't so
> floppy as the 5&1/4" or 8&1/2" versions) but i don't care what's
> on them enough to spend the $.

A couple weeks ago I was at the library and picked up what I thought was
a classical music CD at the "free to good home" rack. I went to play it
and when I opened it up I was surprised to find a 3 1/2" floppy. WTH?

>

> one thing i do like about having the desktop machine and the
> motherboard that can support plenty of USB headers is that if you
> plug and unplug a lot of devices you can use the headers and fill
> them up with cheap USB expansion boards and not wear out your hard-
> wired USB ports that are right on the motherboard.
>

I will have to keep an eye out for one. I wore out the USB ports on my
old laptop.

Graham

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Mar 27, 2023, 1:26:43 PM3/27/23

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I have all my old desktops back to a 486 so I can transfer data from
5.25" floppies relatively easily. I had to update some old data for the
Feds and transferred the 5.25 to 3.5" then to a CD using the old machines.
Then I had to get a special app written to input the data into a new
program.

songbird

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Mar 27, 2023, 4:00:44 PM3/27/23

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Dave Smith wrote:
...

> I will have to keep an eye out for one. I wore out the USB ports on my
> old laptop.

gack! i dislike laptops (don't like my nuts warmed among
many other issues including them often not having very robust
hardware).

songbird

lucr...@florence.it

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Mar 27, 2023, 6:54:44 PM3/27/23

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On Mon, 27 Mar 2023 10:46:48 -0400, songbird <song...@anthive.com>
wrote:

Yes I have used one for years, much more convenient than any other
method.

lucr...@florence.it

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Mar 27, 2023, 6:56:09 PM3/27/23

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You're right, it was Bryan!

Wasn't me, I know it is not recipes on them.

Thomas

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Mar 27, 2023, 7:01:48 PM3/27/23

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I used to target practice on aol disks swinging in the wind. My friends were amazed at how I always shot bullseyes.

itsjoan...@webtv.net

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Mar 27, 2023, 9:48:33 PM3/27/23

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On Monday, March 27, 2023 at 6:01:48 PM UTC-5, Thomas wrote:
>
> I used to target practice on aol disks swinging in the wind. My friends were amazed at how I always shot bullseyes.
>

Hahahahahhaaaaaa!!

Michael Trew

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Mar 28, 2023, 1:42:49 PM3/28/23

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Very early 2000's, in vacation bible school, I remember piles of donated
AOL CD's which me made arts and crafts with, heh.

Dave Smith

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Mar 28, 2023, 1:54:23 PM3/28/23

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They are good for hanging in gardens to scare birds away.

itsjoan...@webtv.net

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Mar 28, 2023, 2:31:34 PM3/28/23

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Yes, I've seen gardeners use them that way. They spin, sparkle, and reflect
the sunlight. Scarecrows on a string!

Bruce

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Mar 28, 2023, 2:50:54 PM3/28/23

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I's use something like this:
<https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/unionrecorder.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/4/6b/46b9d1e6-d99c-11e8-8afe-b364b9d65820/5bd3e1e9e9fd6.image.jpg>

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Mar 28, 2023, 2:52:33 PM3/28/23

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Bruce wrote:
> I's use something like this:
> <https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/unionrecorder.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/4/6b/46b9d1e6-d99c-11e8-8afe-b364b9d65820/5bd3e1e9e9fd6.image.jpg>
>
>

No one here cares about your sex doll.

Gary

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Mar 29, 2023, 6:04:50 AM3/29/23

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heh heh Actually, lol That was funny :)