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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...

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

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

check the smithsonian

chicken n waffles wrote:check the smithsonian

My exact advice

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

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?

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.

3.5" is the best I can offer.

Keep yer jokes to yore-selves.

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.

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.

complacent wrote:but that's some old shit.

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

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

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.

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...

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...

man, i loved wp51.

luckily i've since learned about nvi.

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

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*

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.

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!