[TriLUG] OT: What to do with old floppies?

Carl Crider c.crider at gmail.com
Sat Oct 8 20:45:54 EDT 2005


1. crazy glue floppy-drive card-house.
2. create a floppy RAID [ http://ohlssonvox.8k.com/fdd_raid.htm]
3. wipe them, create a digital christmas card, and start mailing them out.

On 10/8/05, Kevin Otte <nivex at nivex.net> wrote:
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> While cleaning out the cruft in my apartment, I came across a few boxes of
> floppy disks. And by boxes, I mean the kind you get office paper in. Some
> of them are even 5.25"!
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> Given that the floppy drive is all but extinct, what the heck do I do with
> these relics of a bygone era?
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