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Standard User philippercival
(member) Thu 14-Apr-11 10:51:24
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I think I may have as well, but it is on a floppy disk and I no longer have a drive I can connect. frown
Standard User deleted
(deleted) Thu 14-Apr-11 13:18:25
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I still buy (3.5") floppy drives for my desktop PCs, not much point really, but you can get them for a fiver.
Standard User philippercival
(member) Thu 14-Apr-11 16:28:44
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I have stopped bothering, but I have kept a drive on the shelf and if necessary I could fit it. The now rather small capacity of the disc makes them a bit historic. They will not even store a single picture from my Digital camera. I did actually look through them the other day and still have a set of 36 containing an early version of MS office. The Office 2007 download was about 10 times bigger. Now purchasing 2Tb hard drives to keep up with the bloatware.


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Standard User deleted
(deleted) Thu 14-Apr-11 17:22:27
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Installing things like MS Office, in the "olden" days was something akin
to playing "russian roulette". Not knowing how many disks you might get
through, before encountering the dreaded "read error" !

- Alex
Standard User gomezz
(eat-sleep-adslguide) Thu 14-Apr-11 18:29:40
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Or even through finger trouble due to the Reset Button being cleverly sited next to the disk eject button. frown

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Anonymous
(Unregistered)Fri 15-Apr-11 23:47:04
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I must have some 500+ disketes, any idea what do with them ?
Martin
Standard User deleted
(deleted) Fri 15-Apr-11 23:49:38
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Would they work for tiling your bathroom ?

They ought to be waterproof (being plastic).

- Alex
Moderator billford
(moderator) Sat 16-Apr-11 00:10:57
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In reply to a post by Anonymous:
I must have some 500+ disketes, any idea what do with them ?
Martin
How to Make a Starship Enterprise out of a Floppy Disk

There's even a video, you could have your own Star Fleet tongue

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Standard User deleted
(deleted) Sat 16-Apr-11 11:15:41
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Nice one, Bill !

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