Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 02:39:41 -0800 (PST)
From: Tamar Lindsay <dicconf at yahoo.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Looking for a "classic computer" item...
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

If you have a working computer with both 5.25 and 2.5 inch drives,
you can transfer to the smaller floppy, and then use a USB floppy
drive to transfer to a more modern computer.
Then the only problem is the program to read the information.
=Tamar
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On Tue, 11/26/13, Ron Kean <ronkean at juno.com> wrote:

 Subject: [WSFA] Re: Looking for a "classic computer" item...
 To: WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net
 Date: Tuesday, November 26, 2013, 5:26 AM

 Oh, the serial data cable would have to be a crossover
 serial data cable
 for computer to computer data transfer, which would have a
 female 9-pin D
 plug on each end, with pin 2 on end A wired to pin 3 on end
 B, and pin 3
 on end A wired to pin 2 on end B.

 On Tue, 26 Nov 2013 04:17:34 -0500 Ron Kean <ronkean at juno.com>
 writes:
 >
 > There are two kinds of 5.25 floppies, 360K and 1.2M,
 and thus two
 > kinds
 > of 5.25 drives.=A0 A 1.2M drive will read both
 kinds.=A0 But if you have
 > a
 > working computer which can use a 5.25 drive, probably
 the only way
 > to get
 > data off that computer would be by serial cable to
 another
 > computer,
 > which requires a serial data transfer program, which
 would be a DOS
 > program or early Windows.=A0 But it's been years
 since computers have
 > been
 > made with a serial port.
 >
 > If getting a working 5.25 drive will solve your
 problem, it may be
 > that
 > easiest way to get one is to buy one on ebay, or try a
 google
 > shopping
 > search.=A0 I see a 1.2M on ebay right now for $20
 BIN plus shipping.
 >
 > Ron Kean
 >
 > On Mon, 25 Nov 2013 20:50:24 -0500 mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us>

 > writes:
 > > Well, if 20 yr old cars are "classic cars"... I'm
 looking for a
 > 5.25"
 > > floppy
 > > drive. No, not 3.5", a 5.25".
 > >
 > > I'm trying to go through my hundreds of old disks,
 get what few
 > > things are
 > > worth it off, and wipe them all. My drive died -
 well, it tries to
 >
 > > read, and
 > > marks its place (scrapes the floppies).
 > >
 > >=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0=A0=A0mark "I only
 need it for a few weeks"
 > >
 > > --
 > > "The [Dreyfus] Affair ... insisted that Justice
 was more
 > > important than Reasons of State - and even that
 disorder
 > > is to be preferred to sustained and extreme
 injustice."
 > >=A0 =A0=A0=A0- D. Wileman, Republicans
 of the Muddle
 > >
 >
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