Comment on I saved a bunch of floppies and drives from the landfill: what's it worth?
SanguineBrah@lemmy.sdf.org 4 days agoI disagree with this. New old stock blank floppies that have been stored properly are becoming increasingly difficult to find, especially 5.25" media. There are a lot of hobbyists out there that would love to get a hold of them for use with their retro systems. You should sell them on, not throw them away.
ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 4 days ago
That’s not my intention. But my office is only this big and my employer doesn’t really approve of the clutter I have in here. And I’m not bringing that stuff home. If I need to clear the place, I will. But I won’t throw them away: I’ll probably give them to some local retro-computing enthusiast, provided they come get the disks.
I’ve read two dozen disks and they read just fine. A lot of them have obscure drivers and stuff. I’ll upload them somewhere. I think this Youtuber Tech Tangent has some sort of archive going. Maybe I can upload that stuff there.
Meanwhile, I’m installing 32-bit Debian on that P4 machine I salvaged: it’s quite loaded for its time, with two 160G HDDs and 2G of RAM, a nice graphics card and all 🙂