PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Floppy Disks
Thread: Floppy Disks
View Single Post
Old 11th May 2010 | 22:44
  #24 (permalink)  
Keef

Official PPRuNe Chaplain
 
Joined: Apr 2001
Posts: 3,498
Likes: 0
From: Witnesham, Suffolk
I threw out several hundred 3½ inch floppies when we moved house. They were full of "irreplaceable" stuff that I hadn't actually used in years. I kept about a dozen "just in case" with stuff like various levels of DOS boot, and a Linux master boot floppy that "unlocks" the old PC by running Fedora 5 on a spare partition.

I bet I never use those either!

I also chucked several boxes of 5¼ floppies with prehistoric stuff on them. I found my old 5¼ drive and connected it up last year, but Windows 7 didn't seem to like it.

The motherboard in this PC says it needs a floppy to install new BIOS, but I've not tried doing that and I doubt I will.

The floppy is heading for extinction, I fear.
Keef is offline  
Reply