[TriLUG] can anyone read a 5.25" floppy disk?

[Matt Flyer]

On 06/08/2011 10:31 PM, Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:
> I've got a book of astronomical programs written for portability in
> the modern language of Turbo Pascal on a real 5.25" floppy disk (well
> it could have worse, it could have been BASIC)
>
> Presumably at a pinch I could type everything by hand from the text,
> but there are hundreds of double real constants and I'd make a couple
> of mistakes on the way and be expecting sunrise at midday.
>
> Can anyone read this disk to save me typing in all the numbers?
>
> Thanks Joe
>

I still have a 5.25" drive.  It is a full-size drive, like a CD/DVD
reader.  To the best of my knowledge it still works, though I haven't
tried it in quite a while.