We Cleared Out a Storage Unit on Sunday

[Benedict_Arnold]

Not only did I findmy 1993 Sun Sparcstation 5, but I also found,get this, a DOUBLE SPEED USB 3 1/2 inch external floppy dis drive.Should I call Antiques Roadshow? 🙂

 

[Benedict_Arnold]

That's a 3 1/2 inch USB floppy drive not a USB 3 floppy drive, just so you're clear....

 

[nara]

I still keep one of those in the attic.

I'm a frm believer in the "you'll never know when it might come in handy" philosophy.

 

[Benedict_Arnold]

I still keep one of those in the attic.

I'm a frm believer in the "you'll never know when it might come in handy" philosophy.

You and my wife should get on famously.

She keeps blown lightbulbs and flat batteries....grrr....

 

[scene]

I've got a 3.5" USB floppy drive kicking around somewhere in a cupboard. I'm keeping it as I have got some stuff still on old floppy disks I've never gotten round to transferring to CD or USB stick. I reckon the overhead of keeping it is much less than the time it would take me to transfer everything. Sigh. Another task on my to do list.

 

[hg_mike]

I haven't used a floppy drive in years. I also seem to remember going through my collection of floppy disks, when I moved to Fronce, and threw virtually all of them away. I couldn't see the need to keep my setup disks for Windows 3 and 3.1, and other software of that era.

 

[jorgea]

Ought to keep these around as history markers in your timeline of using computers