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Novell DOS floppies still working (Miscellaneous)

posted by rr  , Berlin, Germany, 11.04.2020, 22:04

> That is pretty incredible! I personally have had LOTS of 3.5" disks go
> bad, and have generally had much better luck with 5.25" disks. I still
> have a computer with 5.25" & 3.5" drives and also have a USB floppy (3.5").
> I've never seen a USB 5.25" drive.

Around 10 years ago I had almost no problem reading 3.5" disks from ~60 big boxes (mostly games, some apps and compilers).

I also still have a tower-case DOS computer ('Viper' at https://www.bttr-software.de/members/robert/) with a 3.5" drive, but it sits in my wardrobe since that 10 years, when we moved last. Dunno if it still works. (My 5.25" drive is somewhere at the basement.)

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• Novell DOS floppies still working - rr, 06.04.2020, 22:37 (Miscellaneous)
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