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3.5 discs?

The drive architectures have changed, not they'd work in current computers. Then you need a driver too.

I think anyone that uses one today is probably using an external drive. My motherboard doesn't even have a connection for it anymore. Everything is SATA and USB these days, no spot for that old cable with the twist in the middle.
 
I was cleaning up some today and found a large number of the old 3 1/2" plastic discs. Is there any value to them or should I wait for a call from a museum?

If they are sealed and unused, they can be sold, however do not expect much, maybe one dollar per disk tops if they are high quality unsealed, and if they are the later low quality maybe 5-10 cents per disk. People who mess with antique computers still use them, and manufacturors still use them as replacing a 3-10 million dollar machine that performs fine because the storage medium is obsolete is not viable, this is the main reason floppy disks are still made new, as hobbyists can easily be fed by old stock, indistrial use still needs them for legacy machines, and companies will still crank them out as long as they can make money just like those companies will keep using legacy machines so long as they are doing what they need them to.


If your disks are used, the value is practically nothing, however you can buy a 3.5 floppy drive that is usb that works with windows 10 really cheap if you wanted to see what was on them.

I will note the exception for used floppies is video games, if you have video games on original floppies with their boxes, hipsters and collectors will pay quite nicely for them so long as they still work, which is iffy because I have seen floppies from the 70's work like brand new and new made floppies last 3 weeks, it depends on what quality was used to make them.
 
In a box I have an old 8086 system (complete with 40MB hard drive) that has two 360K 5.25" floppy drives. I also have several disks including those to install DOS 5 However since the DOS 5 disks are upgrade only when the system crashed I would have to load DOS 4 then do the upgrade. Really loved the old database program I had on it FileExpress by ExpressWare.

Unfortunately the year 2000 kind of prevented further use of that system. My word processor was PC Write and PC Write Lite.
 
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