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hevans1944
Hop - AC8NS
The lubricant on the disks inside has probably turned into a viscous goo. I would be very surprised if any of the disks would spin up, much less be readable and writable. I tried to recover some ancient disks I had by soaking them in isopropyl alcohol overnight and then re-lubricating their surfaces with a cotton ball soaked in light mineral oil. I don't remember whether or not that worked, but it would have been a wasted effort as any data present was put there by programs that I no longer have. Still, I have some floppy disk drives laying around in my junque box, just waiting for an opportunity to do something... anything. And I have hundreds of floppy disks of various sizes and formats stashed away too. That's how I learned that the disk lubricant turns into goo after a few years.
I found a box of about 200 floppies my oldest kid left here when he moved out.
I asked him if he wanted them, because he used to store a lot of information on them when he was younger.
He asked me what he might want them for, seeing as to how he'd have difficulty finding a drive to use them.
Interesting to hear that they had a lube inside them that hardens.
Maybe I can use them for drink coasters?
I asked him if he wanted them, because he used to store a lot of information on them when he was younger.
He asked me what he might want them for, seeing as to how he'd have difficulty finding a drive to use them.
Interesting to hear that they had a lube inside them that hardens.
Maybe I can use them for drink coasters?
hevans1944
Hop - AC8NS
Isn't that what the pop-out CD ROM thingy is used for (with or without a CD ROM laying in the tray)? Hmmm. Of course that limits you to just one beverage container per CD ROM drive, a bit of a cramp if hosting a party... yeah, use them floppy disk thingies as drink coasters!
When learning to fly over 50 years ago, 1/2 hour was spent before flight watching a type of record that played on a large av cabinet. May have been a cd forerunner like the dragons lair laser disc.
Anyhow it was later transferred to 3.5 fdd which I still have copies and run occasionally.
Quite a powerful simulator which allows for selection of waypoints, weather conditions, day or night flying with actual local airports data and details available. Still works ok on the fdd in my milling machine with windows 98 that I use for the DRO I made.
No work gets done though at that time.
Anyhow it was later transferred to 3.5 fdd which I still have copies and run occasionally.
Quite a powerful simulator which allows for selection of waypoints, weather conditions, day or night flying with actual local airports data and details available. Still works ok on the fdd in my milling machine with windows 98 that I use for the DRO I made.
No work gets done though at that time.
So, what are you going to do with them?
Sort of reminds me of when my wife comes home from shopping with something useless:
Me: "do we need it?"
Her: "No, but it was on sale!"
hevans1944
Hop - AC8NS
Me: "Well of course it was on sale! It's shoplifting if you walk out with it without paying for it!"
Wife of a mate of mine came in one day saying she had made $50 for the day.
AS she had not worked a day in her life we just had to ask..........
Turns out she had been on a spending (or rather sale ) spree.
She says" I saved $10 on this and so much on that etc... which all together adds up to $50 I made for the day."
Sad thing is technically she was correct if the wording changed a little to "made in savings".
AS she had not worked a day in her life we just had to ask..........
Turns out she had been on a spending (or rather sale ) spree.
She says" I saved $10 on this and so much on that etc... which all together adds up to $50 I made for the day."
Sad thing is technically she was correct if the wording changed a little to "made in savings".
They didn't see you coming - they sent for you.
Getting $1 for something worth nothing is an achievement in itself.
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