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To: dangerdoc

LOL! As if they maintain anything that can read 5.25 in floppies anymore!


30 posted on 07/19/2013 11:45:48 AM PDT by Sarajevo (Don't think for a minute that this excuse for a President has America's best interest in mind.)
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To: Sarajevo
LOL! As if they maintain anything that can read 5.25 in floppies anymore!

I've kept several 5.25" floppy drives from computers I sent to be recycled. I even have a couple double density drive that can only read 320K and 360K floppies. When I was archiving the contents of my floppy disks, I occasionally came across double density disks that could not be read in a high density PC-AT style floppy drive. The only way those disks could be read was to read them in a double density drive. What could really throw them for a loop would be to use 320K (8 sector disks). All versions of Microsoft Windows since Windows 2000 are unable to read them.

31 posted on 07/19/2013 2:32:58 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative (Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not really out to get you.)
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