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It's getting harder and harder to locate 5-1/4" floppies.
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This is nearing the end of its useful days. (Original Post)
qnr
Jul 2016
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lastlib
(23,388 posts)1. I've got some if you want 'em,
but they may be used........
qnr
(16,190 posts)2. Most of the ones I have were used. I will need to get some, just can't
afford them at the moment. Thanks though!
aidbo
(2,328 posts)3. Yeah, everyone has moved on to 3.5 inch floppy disks. So convenient!
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)5. Real men still have 8" floppies
qnr
(16,190 posts)6. Hey, I still have some 8", for my CP/M machine. n/t
qnr
(16,190 posts)8. Kind of sad that I can get 64 GB on an SD card, when I used to get 88K on a floppy.
Of course, you could do a hell of a lot with 88K at the time.
Tom Kitten
(7,352 posts)9. Archaeologists were able to open that disc!
Look what they found!
Orrex
(63,291 posts)4. Is that the disc-notcher that they unearthed at Angkor Wat?
qnr
(16,190 posts)7. Looks more Incan to me n/t
jmowreader
(50,601 posts)10. You still have a single-sided floppy drive? Wow, man!
qnr
(16,190 posts)11. Technically, I can read IDE HDDs and SD cards,
but I do still have a single sided drive that I use more than you'd expect. (This is on an 8-bit Atari 130XE).
jmowreader
(50,601 posts)12. How many classic computers do you have, may I ask?
qnr
(16,190 posts)13. Depends upon your interpretation. Proprietary, I have an Atari 130XE,
an Atari TT/30, an Atari 1040STe, an Amiga 500, and I have older PCs running BeOS, Plan 9, Oberon, and a few other offbeat OSes (along with various flavors of Linux, NetBSD and Minix). Incidentally, the "CP/M" machine mentioned above is an ATR8000 for the 130XE.