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I have an old floppy drive out of a Dell laptop that I found had a micro usb plug in it. I use that whenever I need a floppy.
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I had to go buy a "vintage" system so I could pull still valid information from 5 1/4" disks and see which ones needed to be shredded.
On eBay, prices for "vintage" systems are through the roof; as much as or more than they cost originally. It's nuts!
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Similar items seem to be going for between $20 and $50 on eBay[^]
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You may give it a try.
In 2004 I offered a ten year old SuSE Linux CD box (kernel 1.0.9) at eBay. I was selling some other items and just added this without expecting it to be sold. But it raised up to EUR 25.50.
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As others have said, it's probably of little or no value, but some folks out there might like it for sentimental reasons. I think I still have Turbo Pascal 5.5 around here, along with Turbo ASM, but they're on 5 1/4" floppy disks, and I no longer have a drive to read them. Still, it's kinda fun to read through the manuals (yes, there was this thing called 'documentation' once upon a time) now and then. 
Will Rogers never met me.
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Before chucking my 5".25 and 3".5 drives, I made sure that all of my stuff on floppies was copied to CDs. I can't imagine any reason for me to want to install the 16-bit stuff, but if I ever want to take a trip down memory lane - it's all there...
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Will Rogers never met me.
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Roger Wright wrote: they're on 5 1/4" floppy disks, and I no longer have a drive to read them
I have one. ![Jig | [Dance]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/jig.gif)
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I have a bare 5 1/4" drive, but no modern systems will let me attach it. Not even supported in most BIOSs anymore. Progress!
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If the disks are that old, then they might not works anymore...
At some points, I try to read many of the old ones that I have and maybe half of them were not readable anymore.
I don't know if "original" disks were somewhat better than end-user disks (as it would be the case for pressed vs burned CDs).
In particular, those disk were sensible to magnetic fields so if disks were stored too close of magnetic objects, then their live would be much shorter.
Then as it is 16 bit stuff, you need an OS able to run that too. And the langage itself has changed a lot since then.
Philippe Mori
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Went through all my old software recently. Always an adventure.
I bought it. I probably even used at one time or another. But I don't recall the first thing about Object Vision. 
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I too still have the 3.5" diskettes: mine is Turbo C++ 3.5 for Windows 3.1
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I just realized what day it is!...my favorite number. (or an approximation thereof) 
Edit: added a link[^] for good measure.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
modified 14-Mar-15 15:44pm.
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I don't like Pi, but I would love some Pie[^] and see if its circumference and diameter have a relation between each other. 
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Aah! Thanks for pointing that out. I would have missed it, if you didn't point it out. And it is accurate to 5 decimals, if you omit the "20" of 2015!
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... and a few more if you ignore that 9:26... is really 09:26...
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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Love your Sig.
It is fantastic.
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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Thanks. I put a lot of thought into it.
"Some days I sets and thinks and some days I jest sets."
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
modified 20-Mar-15 10:31am.
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14-3-15? 
Weird American, or is that a tautology? 
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Call it weird if you like, but in the USA today's date is written 3-14-15. Do you get it now?
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Cornelius Henning wrote: Do you get it now?
I never didn't get it, get it? 
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Ok, I got it!
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3-14-16 is a closer approximation...
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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True! We must remember to do this all again in a year! 
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