Floppies and Maverick

[David Fletcher]

On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 12:16 -0800, MR ZenWiz wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 4:33 AM, David Fletcher <dave at thefletchers.net> wrote:
> >
> > For anybody who needs to retrieve files from 3.5 inch floppies, I would
> > suggest they try installing an LS-120 (otherwise known as superdisk)
> > drive. They connect into an IDE interface, of which the new motherboard
> > still has just one. The BIOS on this Asus board still knows about LS-120
> > drives.
> >
> Seems like a fair amount of trouble when there are USB floppy drives
> available.  I'd be surprised if there weren't a USB superdrive, too.
> 
I don't have a USB floppy drive but I do have some LS-120s on the shelf.
So for me this solution was free and next to no trouble at all given
that I was doing a build anyway.

There are some files on floppies that I ought to recover. Perhaps now is
a good time to do it.

> >
> I have some pretty ancient floppy disks that have endured quite well
> over the years in terms of storage and retrieval of archival
> information.

I reckon the older disks were always better quality. My suspicion is
that in the quest to reduce manufacturing costs the quality suffered
greatly.

Dave