A Pack-rat?

[FrankSG]

I must be a pack-rat! I still have a bunch of old 5 1/4 inch floppy disks that I'm saving. I don't know why since I'll never be able to use them; and there's nothing on them that I'll ever need. But I just hate to through them away. Maybe it's just me, but I'm wondering if anyone else is hanging on to their old 5 1/4 inch floppies.
~Frank~

[SufferWell1396]

Haha.

Yes i still have an old 5 1/4 inch sittin around in the basement, i dont know if it works though, ive never been able to try it because i never have any 5 1/4 floppies...

Yes Frank. Im a pack-rat too.. :D

[123456]

Do they use the same connections as a 3.5" floppy drive?

[SufferWell1396]

Nope. not at all. Heres what the connectors for a 5 1/4 drive uses

5 1/4 ribbon cable (http://www.stormscorner.com/ewb/site-content/sk-1/images/DSC01914.jpg)

[pentachris]

I probably had three hundred pounds of old parts and pieces, including an Apple IIe with about 30 5-1/4" floppies and an old Compaq 486 machine and the tractor feed dot matrix printer that came with it.

When we moved here from Montgomery, my wife told me that I could come with her but the computer junk couldn't. So I put it up in a buy-sale-trade magazine as one lot, all or nothing. Sold it the same day the ad printed.

[HomeSA]

yeh, I got a box full of 5.25 floppies in the garage + one or two drives. I think I even have a few 8 inchers (from work) around there too.

[PrntRhd]

Well, I opened a drawer and found a non-functioning 100MB parallel ZIP drive. Why I would save such a thing I don't know. Why did I buy that?

[bassman]

PrntRhd, do you need a functioning drive to read the disks you still have laying around?. I have a perfectly good 100/external/parallel, two internal 100's and one internal 250.
I still have a number of progs on 3.5 floppies, including Windows 3.1, but I got no 5.25's :(

[PrntRhd]

PrntRhd, do you need a functioning drive to read the disks you still have laying around?
No, loud clacking noises were part of their normal operation and the drives were not reliable enough to trust critical data to. My drive lasted about 6 months before dying, and I became convinced a replacement was not worth it even if free. The cabling alone was a nightmare.

[123456]

I remember our old PC had a zip drive. No one used it though.

[FrankSG]

When we moved here from Montgomery, my wife told me that I could come with her but the computer junk couldn't. So I put it up in a buy-sale-trade magazine as one lot, all or nothing.

I think you made the right decesion.:)

[classicsoftware]

I finally threw out my last 5+1/4 drive a few months ago and then I had call for one. It killed me to have to buy one:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

Does anyone want an original IBM PC XT. Complete with 300 lb keyboard?

How about some 1 MB simms???

Maybe I could interest you in an Acer 486-DX2 50 mhz laptop. DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.1 with a 40 MB hard drive?

Maybe a copy of QuickBooks 2.0 for DOS?????

Perhaps a nice 4X CD-ROM????

[FrankSG]

I might even still have my 14.4kps modem. I'd sell that pretty cheep as it may be just a little bit obsolete. Remember those? You could eat a hearty lunch while a page was opening up. And how about downloading a file at that speed? But when I first got it, I thought it was just great!

[classicsoftware]

I might even still have my 14.4kps modem. I'd sell that pretty cheep as it may be just a little bit obsolete. Remember those? You could eat a hearty lunch while a page was opening up. And how about downloading a file at that speed? But when I first got it, I thought it was just great!

I forgot about by 2400 bps modem which sold for about $150.00.....

[Relztrah]

I still keep an old 5¼ floppy drive and disk to show my beginning students why they were called "floppy" but I don't actually use it. I'm old enough to remember the old PCs with two 5¼ drives: one for the OS and one to store data. No hard drive.

[pave_spectre]

At the TAFE where I studied IT, they had an old NEC with Dual 8-inch floppy drives.

[deddard]

You've got to keep at least one 51/4 inch floppy, just so you can show it to the young uns and say THAT's why it's called a floppy!!:D

[rahulkothari]

I must be a pack-rat! I still have a bunch of old 5 1/4 inch floppy disks that I'm saving. I don't know why since I'll never be able to use them; and there's nothing on them that I'll ever need. But I just hate to through them away. Maybe it's just me, but I'm wondering if anyone else is hanging on to their old 5 1/4 inch floppies.
~Frank~

What you can do is you can cut the top of floppy, remove the magnetic disk and use the cover as a cd cover. It looks real cool!

It won't hold the cd tightly, so put the disk in the thin cardboard cover which you used to get along with the floppy. I have some of my cds kept this way. Will upload a pic tommorow.

[setoguro]

I've got all the old stuff too. I keep thinking maybe I'll throw something together just for fun but I never do so it sits. I still have my C64 and disks.

[rahulkothari]

This is how i keep my cds in floppies :)

[Ajmukon]

My oldest PC had a HD, no CD drive, just a foppy
Did not even run Windows 3.1- had some 3rd party OS that no longer exists
(All i remember is that it was blue and and two lists)- But it DID have DOS
i do however, remember that W3.1 was to BIG to fit on the computer

The next PC we got was a NEC READY SYSTEM with Windows 95- still have it if anybody wants an old PC (still runs great too)

After that (2000) we got a DELL, which we still have and actively use

My PC was not a replacement but one for school

[pentachris]

Frank, this little blog entry has your name written all over it. ;)

creative uses for old computer parts (http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/feature-creative-uses-for-old-computer-parts)

(rahulkothari: your cd cover idea is pictured)

[FrankSG]

The first time I needed to buy some RAM for my computer the price was $50.00 a Meg! Remember that? I went to a computer shop that was owned by a friend of mine. He had an 8 Meg module that he took from a used computer, and he said he would sell it to me for $20.00 a Meg. So I took it at that great price! Wow, how things change.