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3.5 discs?

Rexedgar

Rexedgar

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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?
 
Rexedgar said:
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?
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For prerecorded entertainment the only media I've seen in use currently are full size CD's and DVD's.

The only removable media I see anyone use anymore for transferring data are jump drives.
 
Rexedgar said:
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?
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You can hand them out at the local school and tell the kids you 3D printed the save icon on the computer. They'll think your amazing.
 
I've kept mine. One day I will go through them and see what information I wish to keep. I also have 5-1/4 and Zip drive. At least the ZIP is USB. I have adapters for my USB 3.1 to go to drives as well.
 
Lord of Planar said:
I've kept mine. One day I will go through them and see what information I wish to keep.
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What of value to you could possibly be on them? I can't imagine.

Are you sure that's not hording?
 
Rexedgar said:
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?
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I don't know as this may be a pocahontas family story, but my dad's cousin supposedly was one of the guys on the 3m 3 1/2 floppy patent.
 
Rexedgar said:
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?
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Use them to make a bet that you can get a chick's underwear.




(Sixteen Candles)
 
ecofarm said:
What of value to you could possibly be on them? I can't imagine.

Are you sure that's not hording?
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I have several disks with pictures and scanned artwork. I have old records of engineering work I did a couple decades back. I have old programs I made. It's stuff I can show I did in my younger days. There is much more than that.
 
Lord of Planar said:
I have several disks with pictures and scanned artwork. I have old records of engineering work I did a couple decades back. I have old programs I made. It's stuff I can show I did in my younger days. There is much more than that.
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Might wanna transfer that asap. Disks can fail with time.
 
Anthony60 said:
They've probably gone bad anyway.
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Maybe not. I found a bevvy of 5.25" floppies not long ago and every one I tried was still good. They're 30-35 years old.
 
If you want chicken in the back yard you can dangle them from trees to ward off the hawks
 
Coasters, for protecting furniture from sloppy coffee or beer drinkers.
 
Rexedgar said:
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?
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Last time I used them was for older servers to allow me to install RAID drivers... Five years ago. Damn Windows installation would not accept USB install of drivers.
 
ecofarm said:
Might wanna transfer that asap. Disks can fail with time.
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Yes, I know. If something was urgent, I would. I have higher priority of things to do, like finishing restoring a 1970's vintage solid oak tanning bed.
 
Lord of Planar said:
Yes, I know. If something was urgent, I would. I have higher priority of things to do, like finishing restoring a 1970's vintage solid oak tanning bed.
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I dunno. That tanning bed will be waiting for you until the end of time. What's on those disks maybe not.
 
ecofarm said:
I dunno. That tanning bed will be waiting for you until the end of time. What's on those disks maybe not.
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Just goes to show they are a small priority for me. Right? Is that any reason to get rid of them, when I am not cramped for space?
 
Lord of Planar said:
Just goes to show they are a small priority for me. Right? Is that any reason to get rid of them, when I am not cramped for space?
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Pics and such can't be replaced.
 
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Anthony60 said:
They've probably gone bad anyway.
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It's dust that damages them. If they were kept in a clean place, they probably are still good. Of course an old 3 1/2 drive that can read them is probably full of dust and grit and thus would ruin the disks you put in them.

The old 5 1/4 disks would often go bad because they had little protection.
 
SouthernDemocrat said:
It's dust that damages them. If they were kept in a clean place, they probably are still good. Of course an old 3 1/2 drive that can read them is probably full of dust and grit and thus would ruin the disks you put in them.

The old 5 1/4 disks would often go bad because they had little protection.
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I probably have an old drive in the basement, and I have plenty of those old 3 1/2 disks, but it's been many years since I had a working drive in my computer.
 
celticwar17 said:
If you want chicken in the back yard you can dangle them from trees to ward off the hawks
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I think that only works with CD/DVDs due to the reflective coating.
 
Anthony60 said:
I probably have an old drive in the basement, and I have plenty of those old 3 1/2 disks, but it's been many years since I had a working drive in my computer.
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The drive architectures have changed, not they'd work in current computers. Then you need a driver too.
 
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