[Discuss] Retrieving old 3.5 inch floppy disk data

[Jean Taggart]

Hello, 

I’ve had luck with this in the past:

https://www.ebay.ca/itm/New-Portable-USB-External-Floppy-Drive-Disk-Reader-PC-Laptop-Notebook-Computer/141197298045?hash=item20e003c97d:g:wmIAAOSwuc1bUMET

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> On Jan 28, 2019, at 11:19 AM, RICHARD BODY <richard.body at shaw.ca> wrote:
> 
> Thanks Andrew, George and Brendan,
> 
>     I followed your suggestions, thought about how often (and long) I'll be puzzling over 
> the megabyte of text, and decided to purchase Newegg's $CDN 14 offer. I believe I
> have a Windows 7 xp partition if necessary, salted away (in the attic). 
> 
> I do foggily remember wrapping up the data (a thesaurus) over 20 years ago. It's anybody's
> guess if my reasoning then permits retrieval now. MSDOS was probably safe, 1.44MB floppies
> were maybe a decade old, and guessing what medium would endure wasn't a sure bet.
> 
> The C programs that edited, trimmed, merged the unix-style data ran on a precursor of linux,
> gulam. I expect it'll be a month long project decoding my former methods and intentions.
> 
> I'll report back if I find a way to hook up the USB floppy drive to a linux system.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> From: "Andrew Burgess" <greydragon at gmail.com>
> To: "discuss" <discuss at vlug.org>
> Sent: Monday, January 28, 2019 11:02:18 AM
> Subject: Re: [Discuss] Retrieving old 3.5 inch floppy disk data
> 
> 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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