[Discuss] Retrieving old 3.5 inch floppy disk data

[George Farris]

Umm it would probably be way less expensive to just buy a floppy drive
and read them yourself.  Or borrow someones USB floppy drive.


On Mon, 2019-01-28 at 10:35 -0700, RICHARD BODY wrote:
> I've one megabyte of 30 year old ASCII data stored on 16 floppies in
> msdos format
> They have been stored always in a dry, dark place ;-)
> 
> Does anyone know how I can transfer the data to a modern thumb drive
> ?
> 
> Perhaps a commercial service, since I no longer can access a floppy
> reader.
> 
> Thanks for any thoughts.
> 
> Richard
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