[TriLUG] OT: What to do with old floppies?

John Broome jbroome at gmail.com
Sat Oct 8 22:09:23 EDT 2005


On 10/8/05, Kevin Otte <nivex at nivex.net> wrote:
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> While cleaning out the cruft in my apartment, I came across a few boxes of
> floppy disks.  And by boxes, I mean the kind you get office paper in.  Some
> of them are even 5.25"!
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> Given that the floppy drive is all but extinct, what the heck do I do with
> these relics of a bygone era?


I'm still working on the box of floppies I got from lee about a year ago.

my last job still used the sony mavica digital cameras that wrote to
floppy, so I ditched some there.

Other than that, i have boot floppies for YEARS and YEARS to come.



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