Re: OT: Can modern PCs run 5-1/4" floppy drives?

ChairmanOfTheBored wrote:
On Fri, 05 Oct 2007 17:03:00 -0700, Joerg
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Jim Thompson wrote:


On Fri, 05 Oct 2007 21:04:03 GMT, Joerg
<notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:



Rich Grise wrote:



On Fri, 05 Oct 2007 02:47:24 +0000, Joerg wrote:



mrdarrett@xxxxxxxxx wrote:



Oh, gee, times like this, just put a system together from old parts.
A 166 MHz Socket 7 chip and board, Windows 98, a PCI network card to
transfer files to your main system, and you're set.

I've got that but it occupies to much space. Sez the missus ;-)


Just buy her something pretty, or take her out to a nice dinner
and a show. ;-)


Did that (nice Thai restaurant), won't work ;-)


Uh? Whose office IS it ?:-)


Mine but we have an understanding that we don't keep anything that we don't really need. I've seen too many horror stories of packrats. It would be sad if I'd have to keep this big old box just because I can't make the 5-1/4 work in the new one.



Jeez! You only need it long enough to complete an archival project. How
many sessions could that possibly be?
Maybe one to 10 now, and then retire for 3-15 years.
Then *bang* lotza milling around for a way to read those floppies.
Only last year, i had to do some running around in order to read about 200 fanfold and rolled punched paper tape (darn good thing i did not have to deal with 80-column punched cards).
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