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  • Re: Thin Client Pc To Run

    From MIKE POWELL@VERT/CAPCITY2/UUMOES to GAMGEE on Wed Jan 14 08:28:00 2026
    You should probably get those 5.25's copied off and archived somewhere
    more safe/stable. Those floppies WILL eventually fail and be
    unreadable.

    I actually think they already are, but it would not hurt to do it again to
    be sure.
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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to MIKE POWELL on Thu Jan 15 08:15:44 2026
    MIKE POWELL wrote to GAMGEE <=-

    You should probably get those 5.25's copied off and archived somewhere
    more safe/stable. Those floppies WILL eventually fail and be
    unreadable.

    I actually think they already are, but it would not hurt to do it again
    to be sure.

    Seconded - I found an old floppy with my registered versions of Qedit,
    Timed and Global War, and copied them from the 3.5" (remember when they
    were called "microfloppies"?) to my hard drive. It took a lot of sector re-reads, but I was able to get most everything copied. Thankfully, the
    only sectors that failed contained one of the text files and I was able
    to recover most of it.

    If I'd waited much longer, I might have lost more.




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  • From fusion@VERT/CFBBS to poindexter FORTRAN on Thu Jan 15 13:25:00 2026
    On 15 Jan 2026, poindexter FORTRAN said the following...

    re-reads, but I was able to get most everything copied. Thankfully, the only sectors that failed contained one of the text files and I was able
    to recover most of it.

    eek. i just had to do this recently too. on linux ddrescue worked pretty well

    i occasionally get stuff from eBay.. things i wished i had back in the day. thankfully most of it has already been imaged to the internet, but it does feel weird saving a disk you know is bad.. at least if you get one good rip out of it you can pretend they're good if you never touch them again ;)

    why would you want to do this? no idea.. i suppose it's like the people who pirate games and then buy them years later on steam. *shrug*

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to poindexter FORTRAN on Thu Jan 15 11:48:37 2026
    Re: Re: Thin Client Pc To Run
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to MIKE POWELL on Thu Jan 15 2026 08:15 am

    Seconded - I found an old floppy with my registered versions of Qedit, Timed and Global War, and copied them from the 3.5" (remember when they were called "microfloppies"?) to my hard drive.

    I don't recall hearing anyone call them "microfloppies". But it seems there is some confusion about their name, especially today as most people haven't used them in a while - I've seen some posts online where people try to say the 3.5" discs weren't floppy disks because they were hard/rigid.. I think those people might be people too young to have used them though.

    Nightfox

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