3.5 Floppy question...

pinchvalve said:

No one is asking what is on the 3.5" drives?!?!?  I for one am intrigued.  

Text files.  And nothing larger than 720kb.

pinchvalve said:

No one is asking what is on the 3.5" drives?!?!?  I for one am intrigued.  

I still have some with ancient scanned pictures of my cars from the late 90’s

RevRico said:

pinchvalve said:

No one is asking what is on the 3.5" drives?!?!?  I for one am intrigued.  

I thought nuclear missile codes, then I remembered they're still on 5.25s. 

You laugh, but as of a couple years ago they still used 8 inch floppies to handle them.

https://www.cnbc.com/2016/05/25/us-military-uses-8-inch-floppy-disks-to-coordinate-nuclear-force-operations.html

chandler said:

I have a “ZIP” disc that has pics of all the cars I owned and shows I photographed in 98-02 that I’ve never been able to copy. Zip drives were super expensive back then and we had one for transferring graphics files. Maybe I should work on getting them off of there.

 

edit: went to google and found that a zip reader is $14.00 now. Ha!

Mine has a parallel port cable. Haven’t seen a parallel port in about a decade or two...

Here’s someone who isn’t having problems:

https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-metro-subway-masturbate-acquittal-large-penis-20181130-story.html

3.5" floppy drives are the Spawn of Satan.  Mean Time Between Failures is about 42 minutes.

Get the USB floppy drive, copy everything to a folder on a new system, and burn the remains.  The only issue I had supporting a lot of users who kept their old E36 M3 was trying to recover docs that were created in programs that no longer exist.