5.25" floppy drive?

Mr Kleen · Post by **Mr Kleen** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 1:27 pm

Does anyone have a functioning 5.25" floppy drive? Someone brought in a disk and would like to pull off some info. I said I'd put out the Nerd Signal...

Libra Monkee · Post by **Libra Monkee** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 1:50 pm

I think I have a USB one... somewhere.

schvin · Post by **schvin** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 2:17 pm

holy fuck, 5.25"? i sure don't, sorry.

chicken n waffles · Post by **chicken n waffles** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 2:25 pm

check the smithsonian

Mr Kleen · Post by **Mr Kleen** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 2:42 pm

chicken n waffles wrote:check the smithsonian

My exact advice

Libra Monkee · Post by **Libra Monkee** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 3:00 pm

Oh 5.25?! Shiiiiii... you better get out of here with that.

chicken n waffles · Post by **chicken n waffles** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 3:10 pm

Mr Kleen wrote:
chicken n waffles wrote:check the smithsonian
My exact advice

seriously though, what the hell could be on a 5.25" floppy that needs to be recovered? a wordpad file with someone's number on it?

sirwilliam · Post by **sirwilliam** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 3:22 pm

I have a buddy at work (old guy) who has a basement full of archaic pcs. I am sure he has a working one if you need him to extract something.

Post by **complacent** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 3:42 pm

3.5" is the best I can offer.

Keep yer jokes to yore-selves.

Mr Kleen · Post by **Mr Kleen** » Fri Jul 31, 2009 7:43 am

It's for the CO. Apparently a copy of his wife's resume. I have to wonder what format it will be IF we can find a drive.

Post by **complacent** » Fri Jul 31, 2009 7:56 am

Mr Kleen wrote:It's for the CO. Apparently a copy of his wife's resume. I have to wonder what format it will be IF we can find a drive.

With a resume that old, there were only so many professions available to women at that time... I'm not saying it would be wise to tell your CO that if she kept her resume on a 5.25" floppy the only profession available was the oldest in the world...but that's some old shit.

chicken n waffles · Post by **chicken n waffles** » Fri Jul 31, 2009 10:41 am

complacent wrote:but that's some old shit.

best uttered in a slang voice. stewed to perfection. serve hot.

Cereb Daithi · Post by **Cereb Daithi** » Sat Aug 01, 2009 3:44 am

I have one but that does you no good me being in PA

Mr Kleen · Post by **Mr Kleen** » Sat Aug 01, 2009 10:54 am

we found a business that will retrieve data for $10, passed it on to the CO with the warning about the data possibly being in a format that nobody uses anymore.

Cereb Daithi · Post by **Cereb Daithi** » Sat Aug 01, 2009 7:47 pm

I have a MS DOS shell rig that might be up for reading file formats. :p

Still have my Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 5.25" install discs sitting in the next room...

Post by **Sabre** » Tue Aug 04, 2009 5:23 pm

Being that old, very good possibility that it will be in Word Perfect (4.2, 5.0 or 5.1) or even WordStar. Sadly, I remember all of those well...

schvin · Post by **schvin** » Tue Aug 04, 2009 5:41 pm

man, i loved wp51.

luckily i've since learned about nvi.

Post by **Sabre** » Tue Aug 04, 2009 5:49 pm

lol, sadly, I still remember a lot of the key strokes!
Shift-F7 - Print
Alt-F3 - Show codes (as in, all of them, not that shit they have now on Word and such)
F2 - Search

I miss those days... probably why I'm a VI snoob too

Post by **complacent** » Tue Aug 04, 2009 8:03 pm

Sabre wrote:lol, sadly, I still remember a lot of the key strokes!
Shift-F7 - Print
Alt-F3 - Show codes (as in, all of them, not that shit they have now on Word and such)
F2 - Search

I miss those days... probably why I'm a VI snoob too

Ahhh! Another Vi snob! Get 'em!

*ducks*

schvin · Post by **schvin** » Tue Aug 04, 2009 10:22 pm

Sabre wrote:lol, sadly, I still remember a lot of the key strokes!
Shift-F7 - Print
Alt-F3 - Show codes (as in, all of them, not that shit they have now on Word and such)
F2 - Search

I miss those days... probably why I'm a VI snoob too

totally. alt-f3 was my favorite. it was a good use of the bottom 11 rows of screen space!

i sound like an old fart. signing off. heh.

Post by **Sabre** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 12:13 pm

I REALLY do wish that Word would show everything like WP did... oh well...

complacent wrote: Ahhh! Another Vi snob! Get 'em!
*ducks*

lol, you play enough at the command line and you too will become a VI or VIM snob!

DCAWD.com

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