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In use: A Telequipment D61 Oscilloscope (1974). In the cupboard: A tube of unused WD2795A floppy drive controller integrated circuits. I'd throw them out, but
by femto 13y ago
In use: A Telequipment D61 Oscilloscope (1974).
In the cupboard: A tube of unused WD2795A floppy drive controller integrated circuits. I'd throw them out, but I've got delusions that one day someone will have to repair a drive to read some critical data, and these will be the last WD2795A chips in existence. Never mind that that the oxide layer all the world's 8 inch and 5 1/4 inch floppies (including my own) is probably dust by now.
Edit: Forgot to mention the 5 1/4", 3.5" and zip drives, still powered up and hanging off the IDE bus of the desktop I use.
- WalterBright 13y agoLast year I was able to read my 1980 era 8" floppies to recover some files. Every byte read without error.