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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

It's also just laziness and time on my part. I have a couple of ancient systems in my basement that I haven't started in years that I think still have a floppy drive but it would take work for me to start up and sort out, then figure out how to transfer everything over.

And I haven't motivated myself for that considering it would all be for about 10MB of data?

It's amazing when you think about it. Thirty years when I made those floppies, it was like gold and I felt like I was holding an immense amount of data in a 1.5 MB floppy disk. And it wasn't easy to move the data around and it took an obvious amount of time to see the data being transferred.

Now we snap a photo with an average smartphone to generate a 20 megapixel image onto a 4 MB file in the blink of an eye .... every day ... all the time ... hundreds, thousands of times without any effort at all.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Do it next weekend.

order the drive today

gather up the discs on wednesday

test the drive on thursday

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

By your own admission, 10 MB of data could be a shit-ton of stuff that sounds important to you. Just get it done.

And to not be a hypocrite, I'll get going on my own similar project I've been putting off for years, haha. Do we have a deal?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Great, thanks! Full disclosure: this is how long mine has been on my to-do list.

Created 2014-01-03 22:43

Modified 2020-06-24 11:45

I'm finally setting myself a due-date: later this week. Check in with me, bud, I'll check in with you!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hey, how's it going? I managed to do about 40 disks this week (still a fraction of my hoard), though most of them had errors and I'm not sure if my method is the best way to image corrupted disks, to allow for future error correction.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Holy shit ...... now you've got me panicking

40 disks! ... I'm was only worried about two or three disks for myself ... now you've got me wondering how to get this done

I don't know if I should thank you or curse you ... thanks?