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I have both 5.25" and 3.5" drives, but I can only use one at a time.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: I have both 5.25" and 3.5" drives, but I can only use one at a time.
I remember when machines came with 2 floppy drives, A and B, installed. That is the reason the default "hard drive" is the C drive.
Seems so long ago.
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you. – Buddha
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My first PC had one dual 3.5" / 5.25" drive. Sweeeet!
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My 4th PC had a 3.5" and an 8.0" FDD.
Unfortunately, even after buggering around with the skew table, the 8.0" only held about a quarter of the data that the 3.5" disk would hold. Very disappointing at the time.
It was sweet having 5.25" and 3.5" as you could read, see and install anything.
"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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I have a bin of 3.5 drives, might bundle the Borland stuff with a 3.5 drive.
Thanks.
Rage against the narrative.
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Eggbert Bartholomew Bligh wrote: I have a bin of 3.5 drives, might bundle the Borland stuff with a 3.5 drive.
That might help find someone interested in getting the compilers.
I, personally, wouldn't want to go back to the old compilers, but you never know there may be someone interested?
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you. – Buddha
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I've got a 3.5" floppy drive with a USB cable. I can't for the life of me remember where I bought it, but they must be on e-bay.
Indeed they are[^]!
Mine's prettier than that one, so you might want to search further, if it's for an apple machine.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Thanks for the link but I will most likely toss to floppies.
There is only one I am even remotely interested in searching, but it contains data I haven't needed in the past 20 years.
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you. – Buddha
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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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