I don't have one, I might know someone who does.<div><br></div><div>Are you sure that the disks still contain usable data? In many cases a disk that old will have degraded.Something discussed here: <a href="http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Paw-Prints-Writings-of-the-maddog/Document-Freedom-Day-March-31st-2010">http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Paw-Prints-Writings-of-the-maddog/Document-Freedom-Day-March-31st-2010</a></div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Paw-Prints-Writings-of-the-maddog/Document-Freedom-Day-March-31st-2010"></a>And on a similar BBC article some weeks later (I think I might have mentioned it).</div>
<div><br></div><div>My (as usual round about) point being that unless you have used these disks recently/are sure that they have been stored well. There is a good chance that you might not be able to get much data from them nearly 30 years later.</div>
<div><br></div><div>On a related note, if these applications were written in 1984, can we have a quick poll of how old everyone on the list was in 1984? I'd go first but it might make me unpopular.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On 26 August 2010 16:30, Adam Buckland <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Adam.Buckland@eurohill.com">Adam.Buckland@eurohill.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div lang="EN-GB" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Does anyone have a system connected to a 5 ¼” floppy drive that I could read some 1.2m & 360K MS-DOS disks and then copy to a more modern media? </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">I desperately need to get some programs written in approx 1984 into the new world…</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">And yes some of the programs were from V7 Unix / Minix v1 so there is a tenuous Linux connection</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"> </span></p><font color="#888888"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Adam.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"> </span></p>
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