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Re:“I would like to maintain the floppy driver” by qplex on Friday August 02, 2019 @02:19PM (#20595281)
Most of my 1.44MB 3.5" have rotted away as well. Sadly I don't have older ones left to test. I also havent seen a 5.25" drive in a long long time.

What you should really do with floppies is to quickly copy the data to another storage medium.

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Re:“I would like to maintain the floppy driver” by aidenn0 on Friday August 02, 2019 @05:20PM (#20596746)
For whatever reason my copy of "Star Trek: The Rebel Universe" (dated 1988) which is a lower density 3.5" disk works just fine still. It's old enough to be elected as a US senator now.
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