Calling all #Dublin-based #retrocomputing #mastodaine !
Does anyone have a PC with a 5¼ inch (5.25 inch) #FiveAndAQuarterInch #FloppyDrive, ideally running #Linux, otherwise a #Microsoft #OS or even #GreaseWeazle, that I could use to image some old disks, please?
Look what arrived in the post!
Of course I could have used a generic plastic box of approximately the right size to store my floppies, but where's the fun in that? There's an inordinate joy for me in having one of these clattery, fragile boxes in (almost) daily use. Clearly I'm a Serious Professional now.
(By the time I could afford a computer of my own, 5¼ inch floppies had been supplanted by 3½ inch hard-case floppies, so it's a real hoot to own a box of these! What's the word for a nostalgia for something you never experienced? The idea verges dangerously close to a creepy type of conservative thinking. Interesting to experience that as a positive emotion.)
Amin Girasol