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Re: 5.25" floppy reading

On 2024-01-15 16:12, James wrote:
> I suspect it is fruitless.
> The time to convert them was 50 years ago. :-)
> 
> https://superuser.com/questions/344682/reading-old-5-25-floppies

Dunno about 50 years...  I certainly had some in the early 80s for the
Commodore PET 2001, but they were lower format diskettes.  Most of the
ones I have are HD from the early 90s to early 2000s (so only half that).
I have 4 large boxes of floppies (both sizes) that I'm keeping until I
have the time to rescue any useful information, or give up and toss
them.

I'll use that info from the last jitsi meeting about low-resource
distros to find a live USB distro to boot...  And that brings up a vague
recollection that early machines with USB didn't have the ability to
boot from them...  :-/

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