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Shameel wrote: call it a Receiver.
More like call it a sucker 
"I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones." Einstein
"Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example." Mark Twain
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He said it would be skipped, not shipped!
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viaducting wrote:
He said it would be skipped, not
shipped!
In that case, I hope no one wants it. I really want to see Dave go skip a computer across a pond. The keyboard or mouse would be easiest beyond the pesky cords. Smallest, lightest and most flat surface. Now getting an old CRT to skip, that would be a feat!
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I'd love it but I ain't got room I've got a house full of elderly electronics now. Something like that is getting towards the "vintage" category, Might actually be worth some
money.
If it does have to go in the skip though I'd love that 5.25" drive they are like hen's teeth nowadays. (more than happy to pay the shipping)
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I will see if I can Pullet out for you.
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
English League Tables - Live
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Cheers Dave been trying to get one for a while. I found loads of my old projects from years back that I'd like to transcribe but they're all on 5.25". Remember when floppies really were floppy?
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I will send you my email addy.
Contact me through that and I will discuss how to get it to you.
(Give me a day to pull the thing apart).
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
English League Tables - Live
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Why not just contact him through the Email link at the bottom of his post? 
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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cus dat r cleva
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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None of your modern text speak in the lounge, please!
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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I wonder if you can even buy the 5.25 disks anymore?
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Why, yes[^]! How many boxes would you like? 
/ravi
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Awesome Ravi thanks as I believe that the 5.25 disk will make a big comeback
in Windows 8 and I want to stock up now.
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Actually 8" Bernoullis are going to make a bigger comeback. That's why they call it Windows 8. 
/ravi
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What was I thinking (reminds self to change order)
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: Actually 8" Bernoullis are going to make a bigger comeback.
Not 8 inch floppies? http://oldcomputers.net/pics/8-inch-floppy-disks.jpg[^]
WE ARE DYSLEXIC OF BORG. Refutance is systile. Your a$$ will be laminated.
There are 10 kinds of people in the world: People who know binary and people who don't.
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Oh man! Can you imagine the stack of floppies to install Windows 8! 
"Please insert disk 12,774 and press any key when ready"
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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OriginalGriff wrote: Can you imagine the stack of floppies to install Windows 8!
Don't mean to be pushy, but it's really a queue. 
/ravi
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Nope. With floppies I always piled them up upside down (so disk one was at the top) and took the top one off next. The used one went on a separate pile, face up.
That's a stack to me! Or two stacks if you are being picky 
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Reading disk 12,774
Not ready reading drive A
Abort, Retry, Fail?
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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Wouldn't that be fun? 
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Good point probably not. But I recently came across a great pile of 'em that I'd like to archive only problem is finding something to read 'em. It's a bit like people who collect 78 Records I guess.
It was interesting to find out that not only does my Machine which is only about 18 Months old still support 5.25" drives but so (Apparently) does Windows 7.
I should be able to put the whole lot on a USB pen drive with room to spare if the 5.25" doesn't drive me mad (or deaf) doing it
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Member 8307713 wrote: only problem is finding something to read 'em. It's a bit like people who collect 78 Records I guess.
More like 8-tracks. I used to have a friend that collected lps, tapes, posters
and such and he said they are hard as hell to find.
Member 8307713 wrote: It was interesting to find out that not only does my Machine which is only about 18 Months old still support 5.25" drives but so (Apparently) does Windows 7.
Now that surprises me I would of thought that something that out-dated
would no longer be supported?
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Mike Hankey wrote: Now that surprises me I would of thought that something that out-dated
would no longer be supported?
Have a look at this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDrq3BVNxm4[^]
And the Bios supports 'em too I just checked
As for 8 Tracks don't get me started on that one I had to fix one a few years back I ended up having to machine a part for on my lathe (I'm into Model Steam Engines too)
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Member 8307713 wrote: As for 8 Tracks don't get me started on that one I had to fix one a few years back I ended up having to machine a part for on my lathe
Gets you all steamed up?
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