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* Who here still have floppy disk(ette)s?Ant
+* Who here still have floppy disk(ette)s?Rod Speed
|`- Who here still have floppy disk(ette)s?Jeff Jonas
`- Who here still have floppy disk(ette)s?Marco Moock

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Who here still have floppy disk(ette)s?

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 by: Ant - Fri, 14 Apr 2023 01:30 UTC

My colony still have IBM PC 3.5" disks (e.g., MS Word for DOS, Windows
3.1, drivers like for SB16, etc.) from the 90s. I don't even use them!
:O
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 by: Rod Speed - Fri, 14 Apr 2023 17:40 UTC

Ant <ant@zimage.comant> wrote

> My colony still have IBM PC 3.5" disks

I have those, 5.25" IBM PC and Commodore 64 floppys
and 8" DEC floppys.

> (e.g., MS Word for DOS, Windows 3.1,

I have those and OS2 as well.

> drivers like for SB16, etc.) from the 90s.

> I don't even use them!

Me neither. I still have all the drives and still
have machines that can use them including
the Commodre 64 drive.

> :O

This is no laughing matter antboy.

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 by: Marco Moock - Sat, 15 Apr 2023 17:49 UTC

Am 14.04.2023 um 01:30:37 Uhr schrieb Ant:

> My colony still have IBM PC 3.5" disks (e.g., MS Word for DOS,
> Windows 3.1, drivers like for SB16, etc.) from the 90s. I don't even
> use them! :O

I still have them, but I never used them for real productive work.
I got the first one in 2012.

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From: jeffj@panix.com (Jeff Jonas)
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Subject: Re: Who here still have floppy disk(ette)s?
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Summary: I'm running all sizes, as is the VCF museum
 by: Jeff Jonas - Mon, 1 May 2023 10:07 UTC

>> My colony still have IBM PC 3.5" disks

> I have those, 5.25" IBM PC
> and Commodore 64 floppys and 8" DEC floppys.

I volunteer at the NJ Vintage Computer Museum
(a member of the Vintage Computer Federation)
https://vcfed.org/
so all sizes and formats are still in use.

Admittedly, many well used systems
use solid-state drive emulators such as Fujinet
https://fujinet.online/

I personally still have 8" DSDD drives running my Z80 CP/M system.

--Jeffrey Jonas
jeffj@panix(dot)com
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