[Discuss] Retrieving old 3.5 inch floppy disk data

[Andrew Burgess]

I have a PC wih a 3.5 inch floppy. I can check and see if it still works.


On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 10:58 AM George Farris <farrisga at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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