> Second, from Jim Timpe:
>
>> I have to ask why you want this?
>>
>> 3.5 in. floppy drive
>>
>
> I've got a couple hundred 3.5" floppies, some of which contain information
> I may need someday, but the likelihood is too small to bother copying them
> onto other media. Of course, I'll have a helluva time finding the one I
> want, but if I do, I'd like to have a way to read it. I suppose I could
> use the laptop, assuming it's still alive, or un-mothball the old Nortgate
> 286 in the basement that has both 5.25 and 3.5 drives, which I'm keeping
> for just such an eventuality. Yeah, I've still got stuff on 5 1/4"
> floppies. :-[ And the difference between the media card reader alone and
> the media card reader with floppy drive is, again, only $20.
>
I'm with Walt, too. This may be slightly disturbing.
Anyway, I've got lots and lots of little files in word processing formats
and small Pagemaker files. I could put all the floppies on one hard drive,
probably all of them on one CD. But what about when the CD shoots craps?
I've had a few floppies crap out, but all in all, they've been the most
reliable form of storage I've used.
Bill Pearce
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