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

Ian Kilgore ian at trilug.org
Sat Oct 8 23:21:12 EDT 2005


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John Broome wrote:
| 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"!
|>
|>Given that the floppy drive is all but extinct, what the heck do I do with
|>these relics of a bygone era?
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| I'm still working on the box of floppies I got from lee about a year ago.
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| my last job still used the sony mavica digital cameras that wrote to
| floppy, so I ditched some there.
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| Other than that, i have boot floppies for YEARS and YEARS to come.

If they work, feel free to toss a hundred or so this way ;]
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