To: WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 21:48:20 -0500
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Looking for a "classic computer" item...
From: Ron Kean <ronkean at juno.com>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

This is true, but you probably mean 3.5 inch floppies, instead of 2.5
inch.  When I said 'the only way' to move data from such an old computer
would be via serial cable, I should have said apart from using floppies
to carry data from one computer to another.  There are even other ways,
such as using a modem, which would involve a serial cable if it's an
external modem, a network connection, or email, I suppose, on further
thought.

On Tue, 26 Nov 2013 02:39:41 -0800 (PST) Tamar Lindsay
<dicconf at yahoo.com> writes:
> 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
> --------------------------------------------
> 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).
>  > >
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>  need it for a few weeks"
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>  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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