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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: Hawkmoon on March 15, 2017, 09:44:46 PM
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Does anyone have a computer or an external drive that can read them?
I just unearthed a set of 5-1/4" floppies with a Truetype font collection on it. I think Windows now includes some of them, but not all. Not the end of the world if I can't get them copied to a more modern media, but if anyone has the ability to read them I'd like to get the fonts transferred to a thumb drive or a CD/DVD.
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Does anyone have a computer or an external drive that can read them?
I just unearthed a set of 5-1/4" floppies with a Truetype font collection on it. I think Windows now includes some of them, but not all. Not the end of the world if I can't get them copied to a more modern media, but if anyone has the ability to read them I'd like to get the fonts transferred to a thumb drive or a CD/DVD.
I have a 5.25 drive, and a cable. I'll have to see if I have access to an older computer with a floppy interface.
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I have a few older computers with a 5 1/4 drive do you want one? I think I have one running win98 but it hasn't been plugged in for years
I think I still have win nt and win 95 on 3 1/2 around here somewhere and some old copies of Linux.
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I have a few older computers with a 5 1/4 drive do you want one? I think I have one running win98 but it hasn't been plugged in for years
I think I still have win nt and win 95 on 3 1/2 around here somewhere and some old copies of Linux.
T'aint hardly worth shipping an entire computer just to copy the files off a couple of floppies. If they work, could I send the diskettes to you with a couple of blank CDs and ask you to copy the files over?
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T'aint hardly worth shipping an entire computer just to copy the files off a couple of floppies. If they work, could I send the diskettes to you with a couple of blank CDs and ask you to copy the files over?
Just a suggestion, it would easily fit in an email attachment. No need to mail physical media back.
I have one computer with a 5.25 inch floppy drive - unfortunately it's so dated I have no other interfaces to get anything back off of it.
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Didn't Irwin have a thread a long time ago about disposing of old floppy disks?
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You can buy a USB powered 5.25" floppy drive from any number of sources on the net.
And, most of them are under $25.
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Judging by the thread title, I wasn't sure what was going to be lurking inside this thread...
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You can buy a USB powered 5.25" floppy drive from any number of sources on the net.
And, most of them are under $25.
That's worth looking at. I'm sure I have some other old 5-1/4" floppies here that might be worth recovering if the price isn't too high.
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You can buy a USB powered 5.25" floppy drive from any number of sources on the net.
And, most of them are under $25.
Are you sure you don't mean 3.5" floppy drives? 5.25 is a different animal regarding communication.
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Judging by the thread title, I wasn't sure what was going to be lurking inside this thread...
Well, now you are.
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Are you sure you don't mean 3.5" floppy drives? 5.25 is a different animal regarding communication.
Crap, I was sure that I had seen 5.25 USB floppy drives...
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Crap, I was sure that I had seen 5.25 USB floppy drives...
Yeah, if you type that in as a search term, it shows a bunch of drives, but they are all 3.5". The old 5.25 drives require bridging to work on modern mobos. There is hardware out there, but I think it runs like a hundred ducats (plus the drive).
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I'll drag one out and plug it in this week
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http://www.deviceside.com/fc5025.html (http://www.deviceside.com/fc5025.html), the interface
http://www.floppydisk.com/transfer (http://www.floppydisk.com/transfer), a service that says they can do it for you.