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Old 04-06-2024, 09:16 PM   #8
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All seriousness aside, it matters when one needs to go back and debug something later. I am not looking forward to that when some standard/assumption/file format changes down the road — and it will happen; I remember the "WordStar standard file format" all too well (I'm old; I also remember EBCDIC character coding).



Yes. In museums. That said, I have a working external 5.25" floppy drive I backended into a USB interface with a soldering iron, some ingenuity, and breadboarding skillz from the 70s — if I can find the bloody power cable...

Not to mention the collection of five-pin DIN-connector spare keyboards.
I have a ton of those 4 pin Molex 'Y', a couple of 5 pin, ps2 keyboards . I did get rid of the 360K and 1.2M 5.25 floppies .
find an old AT class PSU and cut the cables off, but I think Amazon has adapters (for either way )
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