Lars Pind

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5 1/4" drive needed

June 20, 2005 · 5 comments

In 1989 I was insightful enough to make backups of the source code to the major pieces of software I had developed by then. The only problem is I made them on 5 1/4” floppies, and now I no longer own a drive that reads those. Do any of you have access to such a drive so I could get it out? We are talking 18 floppies of less than 360 kB each, so a maximum of 6 MB.

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  • 1 Gunnar Langemark // Jun 20, 2005 at 04:02 PM

    I have.... :-)

  • 2 Gunnar Langemark // Jun 20, 2005 at 04:03 PM

    one on my Debian box at home. What's the time frame? I'm currently moving the network and home office, so it's not on the net right now but could be in a few days probably.

  • 3 Lars Pind // Jun 20, 2005 at 05:02 PM

    That's great! There is no rush. They have been sitting there for 16 years.

  • 4 Gunnar Langemark // Jun 20, 2005 at 05:53 PM

    let's get back to the practical stuff one of these days. I've got a bid to make on a large project wednesday! :-)

  • 5 Mark Aufflick // Jun 26, 2005 at 04:02 PM

    I have one, but it's an Apple ][ 5.25" drive - I don't think the IWM chip (integrated Woz Machine) can handle dos format disks ;)