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I wish I would have known about this a year or so ago. I was cleaning out my fathers stuff and tossed dozens of floppy’s for lack of a better way to handle them
by sircastor 4y ago
I wish I would have known about this a year or so ago. I was cleaning out my fathers stuff and tossed dozens of floppy’s for lack of a better way to handle them.
- cmeacham98 4y agoHopefully this doesn't sound too mean, but "lack of a better way to handle them"? I went on Amazon and searched "floppy reader" and had dozens of hits of external USB floppy readers in the $10-$20 price range (and could probably find one even cheaper if I spent more than 30 seconds looking). Was there something special about these floppies that made them difficult to handle?
- netsharc 4y agoI wonder if floppy disk drives nowadays can just read once at insertion and cache the puny 1.38MB in memory. And have some battery backup to write if the power goes out during unmount procedure (The floppy drives on Macintosh didn't have the eject button and you had to drag the diskette to the trash to unmount it).
- selcuka 4y ago> floppy disk drives nowadays You answered your own question.
- ThrowawayTestr 4y agoThem being a large bulk of plastic? I don't think the OP was concerned about the contents but of throwing out a bunch of plastic that could have been valuable.