OT: Need some 5 1/4 inch floppies
Barry
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Anyone have any 5 1/4 inch floppies left over from the old days? For this application, they must be never used, DS/DD, and unformatted (DS/HD and pre-formatted won't work here). If so, please PM me. Thanks.
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These will be found in the relic section.
Wow.
I have an unopened box of pre-formatted. Let me know if you can't find anything else.
and it sets us apart from practitioners and consultants. Gregor
You can't leave us hanging like this
<< <i>I still have a few 8 inch floppy disks somewhere (Yep, really showing my age on this one!). >>
I still have programs on paper tape! Now if this were a coin, it would still be considered modern. Funny how a forty year old coin is modern but a five year old computer is a relic.
Tom
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XpipedreamR - They are used in a machine in my office that tests peripheral vision. It's a proprietary format and a disk drive upgrade isn't available (though a new machine for $20K is!)
I am certified to repair REMEX paper tape punchs and readers.
But I haven't even looked at these things since sometime in 1983.
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Sorry
Ken
how about ultima IV? ran on 5 floppies, as i recall.
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I have found the Amulet of Yendor.... LOL, one of my best friends in grad school knew the folks that built Rogue. It started on a mainframe at UC Berkley (sp?) and then was moved over to the "new" PCs that had just come out.
It was awesome! I wonder where that game can be found now?
I seem to recall it was called Quest or Castle or something like that! It really made the mind think!
thought about changing my name to "zorkkarl"
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I have an entire filebox full of them - probably in the garage somewhere. If you had a functional Commordore 64, you could have yourself a kickarse game of M.U.L.E.
Actually, I do have a working C64 somewhere in the basement. I did some programming back in those days (and actually sold several thousand copies (part hardware, part software) of a wireless networking system for the C64. I was ahead of my time, wasn't I? I saved one working C64 in case I ever want to impress myself with what I used to be able to do
The million dollar question - do you have any blank disks, or are they all full of C64 programs?
Lawman wrote: Dude, my office mates finally made me throw out a whole bunch of them a few weeks ago! I never get rid of anything unless somebody holds a gun to my head. What are you going to do with them?
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Outhaul wrote: 5.25 FLOPPIES!?!?! What are you re-stocking your Commodore 64? Or are you upgrading to a Z-100?
See my 9:27 AM post for the answer. Guess you guys missed it...
Edit; Just thought of something. There is a program called "disk sweeper" or something like that and it is DOS based. It will do a federal wipe(all 0's) no tracks or partitions. Found the crack and prog for the pro ver. through google.
If needed PM me and I'll find the person I did that for and get his link(long story)
(And until the fire in my apartment back in 97 I was still using my old TRS-80 model I and Model II with 8 inch drive. Those 8 inch disks were a real pain to find.)
Good luck on the search
In Laurel
MD
Just a fist full of Dollars
I used to use the debugger on my old TRS-DOS machine to write assembler and stuff the hex into data arrays for BASIC programs. The Amiga was the heat though, because it's operating system was re-entrant. Unheard of simplicity. I started writing code for an old System/34, and really enjoyed PC's when they became affordable. My first harddrive was a $1500 5 meg external for the TRS-80 II. That was back in the Mustang BBS days. I liked Compuserve and Genie, but the real fun came courtesy of Ward Christensen's Xmodem protocol. Elegant 128 bit packets with checksum that finally enabled simple file transfer. Long before the Windows InYourFace.
and it sets us apart from practitioners and consultants. Gregor
A man after my own heart - I had one of those trash-80 machines too - still have all those Z80 opcodes stored in my head
Maybe we should all start using ASCII codes when PCGS censors our post
I found some a couple of years ago stuck in Methusela's beard. Haven't seen any since . . .
I will check to see if I can find the disks. If I find any blanks they're yours.
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Myriads
I also have the original IBM model O typewrier. That was the first all electric typewriter IBM ever manufactured.