OT -- keeping old floppy disks

[G. Morgan]

You may already be shit outta luck already. Transfer any data you need NOW, floppies have a very short shelf life.

And yes, destroy them after you get the data.

[Jules Richardson]

Sadly I don't think I can use those in anything :-( They were probably current-tech around '92 or so, as I remember I had a PC which came with eight of them that year (and which I upgraded to 8MB at some ridiculous expense - I bet I still have the receipt somewhere).

Most of the stuff I'm interested in is much older - although I do have a couple of PCs in overseas storage that are mid-90s (kept because their floppy controllers will handle the FM density typical of old floppies, which PCs normally aren't capable of reading)

cheers

Jules

[Stormin Mormon]

I'll get right on it, and do what I can. For some reason, IIRC, when I got my last machine, I got a CD burner for it, and transferred a lot of my data to CD/RW.

Makes me wonder what I had several years ago, that might even be relevant to today? Resume for jobs that I no longer care about. I'm worrying about things that don't make any difference? Wouldn't be the first time, I'm sure.

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You may already be shit outta luck already. Transfer any data you need NOW, floppies have a very short shelf life.

And yes, destroy them after you get the data.

[Paul MR]

responded within 15 minutes and took them all.

[Paul MR]

responded within 15 minutes and took them all.

[krw]

Yep. There is no reason to screw around with CDs when hard disks are so cheap.