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I "inherited" one of these from a colleague about a decade ago when his girlfriend really wanted him to get rid of a "bunch of crap". I got his box of approx. 1

by tpmx 4y ago

I "inherited" one of these from a colleague about a decade ago when his girlfriend really wanted him to get rid of a "bunch of crap". I got his box of approx. 100 floppy disks from his childhood too. I had very mixed feelings accepting the gift from him. Both happy and sad for him. I figured I'll keep it and have fun with it, and if he ever brings it up again, I'll ask if he wants it back.

zozbot234 4y ago
Please make sure to dump images of these floppy disks and preserve those. These things are getting increasingly hard to read, due both to degradation of the underlying media and lack of working equipment. You might have a copy of some software, demo, misc content etc. that has not been otherwise preserved.
- tpmx 4y ago
  Is there a way without (much) extra HW? Like via the DIN serial port to a PC or something?
  - ajross 4y ago
    You can buy a greaseweazel board (open source floppy controller designed for this purpose) and read them with an old PC floppy drive.
    - tpmx 4y ago
      That looks very affordable - and I do have some old 360k PC floppy drives around. Thanks!