Floppy Help

[AustinKZombie]

Whats the best way to get data off of a 3.5in floppy disk. Is there some some sort of floppy disk to usb adapter

[AlwaysFSX]

Was going to make a penis joke...

There's usb floppy drives.

[dragoon20005]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA1PU0FD9579

 

 

USB floppy drive to the rescue

[Hidden Orange]

Apparently it exists. Don't know where you can get one, though.

[RelentlessAF]

What can even be stored on there? Weren't Floppy Discs only a couple of MB?

[dragoon20005]

What can even be stored on there? Weren't Floppy Discs only a couple of MB?

1.44MB or 2.88MB compressed

 

your word docs can be saved in the floppies

 

you guys are lucky

 

I have to use 5.4 Inch floppies...

[RelentlessAF]

1.44MB or 2.88MB compressed

 

your word docs can be saved in the floppies

 

you guys are lucky

 

I have to use 5.4 Inch floppies...

But whyyyy flash memory is so inexpensive now 4GB is pretty cheap. It seems kind of silly to me.

[Hidden Orange]

1.44MB or 2.88MB compressed

 

your word docs can be saved in the floppies

 

you guys are lucky

 

I have to use 5.4 Inch floppies...

Damn... That's one big floppy. Apparently, 8 in. floppies exist too.

[dragoon20005]

But whyyyy flash memory is so inexpensive now 4GB is pretty cheap. It seems kind of silly to me.

op could have some old data in the floppies that he need them to be extracted

 

some old DOS games comes in multiple floppies

 

ah the good old days where I take apart a broken floppy and throw it like a flying disk

[dragoon20005]

Damn... That's one big floppy. Apparently, 8 in. floppies exist too.

ah old memories coming back

[dragoon20005]

here is an interesting find

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2614323/Americas-feared-nuclear-missile-facilities-controlled-computers-1960s-floppy-disks.html

[RelentlessAF]

op could have some old data in the floppies that he need them to be extracted

 

some old DOS games comes in multiple floppies

 

ah the good old days where I take apart a broken floppy and throw it like a flying disk

I used to accidentally break the spring in the top all the time lol. We had so many of them and they never had anything useful on them, mostly a few unimportant old files. I did play old DOS games though if I recall but my most easily recalled memories are of early CD's and Half-Life. Good ol' Half-Life.

[RelentlessAF]

here is an interesting find

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2614323/Americas-feared-nuclear-missile-facilities-controlled-computers-1960s-floppy-disks.html

"Oh yeah sure, we'll dismantle our nuclear warheads just like everyone else did." - America