<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> They were desperate times my friend!!! :-) <div class="moz-signature"> Rob Ward </div> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 28/07/15 19:35, JMZ wrote: </div> <blockquote cite="mid:55B74CCF.6030101@gmail.com" type="cite"> On 07/28/2015 12:37 AM, Eric Christopherson wrote: <blockquote type="cite">On Mon, Jul 27, 2015, JMZ wrote: <blockquote type="cite">Hi, Silly question: am I the only one who still uses floppies (ie. 1.44 MB HD 3.5"/90mm)? I use them to temporarily store shell scripts. Since scripts are usually only a few kilobytes long (if that), floppies are great for storing works in progress. After a week or two I make ongoing archive tarball CD backups. The scripts don't stay on very fragile media like a floppy for a long time. You'll be surprised that floppies are still available. Here in the northeast USA unopened boxes of floppies can be gotten at thrift shops, junk stores, dollar stores etc. Heck, I even found two unopened boxes of "Macintosh formatted" floppies. I don't remember Mac formatted floppies even "in the day". Weird! Jordan </blockquote> I'm getting back into retro computing now -- </blockquote> So am I. I bought a very good condition C64 C from a fellow ham. I dumpster dived a perfect CRT TV (yeah, it's easy to use a LCD TV, but it's not "authentic"). A 1541 drive/clone would be great, but 5.25" isn't realistic today. <blockquote type="cite"> my drug of choice being my Commodore 128 with a 1581 3.5" drive. </blockquote> <snip> I'll go off the xubuntu list and see if there's a way I can get a good 1581 or homebrew a solution. I'm sure someone has used an internal PC HD 3.5" drive. Strange, years ago a few of my ham friends used to swear that "notching" 3.5" SD 720K discs would "convert" them to HD. I would warn them of bad sectors, but cheap is as cheap does I suppose. <snip> Jordan </blockquote> </body> </html>