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Re: what kind of data line is needed to connect my 5.25 inch internal floppy disk drive?

15-Jul-21 9:54

The 286 would be running DOS. You don't even want to go there if that name says little.

It was a time when user-friendly was not yet even invented. The drive-connectors were huge with lots of wires in a band. More of those cables survived than the motherboards who support them.

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charlieg15-Jul-21 10:55

Re: what kind of data line is needed to connect my 5.25 inch internal floppy disk drive?

15-Jul-21 10:55

Eddy is being a smart a$$ - we're in the lounge.. Smile | :)

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Eddy Vluggen15-Jul-21 11:28

Re: what kind of data line is needed to connect my 5.25 inch internal floppy disk drive?

15-Jul-21 11:28

History isn't forbidden.

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charlieg16-Jul-21 16:08

Re: what kind of data line is needed to connect my 5.25 inch internal floppy disk drive?

16-Jul-21 16:08

No of course not and apologies, rereading your post you weren't being a smart a$$. Your history precedes you Wink | ;)

charlieg15-Jul-21 10:55

Re: what kind of data line is needed to connect my 5.25 inch internal floppy disk drive?

15-Jul-21 10:55

Those of us who are curious - why do you need a 5.25" drive?

Eddy Vluggen15-Jul-21 12:18

Re: what kind of data line is needed to connect my 5.25 inch internal floppy disk drive?

15-Jul-21 12:18

That's what she said.

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charlieg16-Jul-21 16:08

Re: what kind of data line is needed to connect my 5.25 inch internal floppy disk drive?

16-Jul-21 16:08

See? I rest my case. lol

Southmountain15-Jul-21 12:50

Southmountain

15-Jul-21 12:50

I have an old software on 5.25 inch floppy disk and I want to back it up...

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Re: what kind of data line is needed to connect my 5.25 inch internal floppy disk drive?

Eddy Vluggen15-Jul-21 13:05

Re: what kind of data line is needed to connect my 5.25 inch internal floppy disk drive?

15-Jul-21 13:05

You best invest in the mentioned solutions. Mine would work, but would require tenacity. You'd be mucking with transmission rates.

It can be done, but never worth the money.

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Southmountain15-Jul-21 15:02

Southmountain

15-Jul-21 15:02

thank you for the solution! I will give a try...

diligent hands rule....

Re: what kind of data line is needed to connect my 5.25 inch internal floppy disk drive?

Eddy Vluggen15-Jul-21 22:46

Re: what kind of data line is needed to connect my 5.25 inch internal floppy disk drive?

15-Jul-21 22:46

The other solutions are more practical, but you're welcome Smile | :)

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charlieg16-Jul-21 16:09

16-Jul-21 16:09

so you're copying the 5.25" to a USB or other more modern storage device?

Why Amazon sucks today

Dan Neely15-Jul-21 5:06

15-Jul-21 5:06

About a month and a half ago I was running low on kitchen trashbags. I had a subscription setup for them, but was going to run out before it was scheduled to arrive; so I manually ordered a box and figured I'd just cancel the sub order next month.

When they arrived I tossed the box in the cupboard and while finishing the last of the old box. A week and a half ago I opened the box pulled out a bag and almost immediately gagged on the smell. Instead of the normal bags I'd intended to order they were Frebreeze Stenched bags (in the same way that someone who bathes in cheap perfume is stenched like flowers). This wasn't a brief mild scent like if you used a spraybottle of it on something; every time I opened my trash can the Febreeze was as strong stinking as the worst bag of week old garbage I might have in any given year and far worse than about 90% of what I put on the curb. Dead | X|

I assumed I just accidentally ordered the wrong thing via search instead of order history figured I'd get the normal bags this week via my subscription; and since I'd already opened and partially used them I couldn't do a return anyway. D'Oh! | :doh:

My subscription just arrived, I opened it and it was another Elephant | [mastadon]

ing box of Febreeze bags. Mad | :mad:

Confused I went to my order history and started poking around. Every single box of bags I'd ordered was showing a picture of the febreeze version. Apparently the Sunshine | [little ray of sunshine]

s updated the existing product listing to include "(Package May Vary)" and then switched out for the Febreeze version. They still list the non-scented bags in larger counts/box for a lower price/box than the stinking ones they stuck me with. 🤔🤔

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PIEBALDconsult15-Jul-21 5:32

PIEBALDconsult

15-Jul-21 5:32

Yeah, finding truly unscented bags is difficult. We don't order them from online.

Dan Neely15-Jul-21 5:42

15-Jul-21 5:42

Yeah. I might end up getting replacements at retail, on closer inspection in addition to being significantly larger (90/120 vs 60ish); it looks like the listings on Amazon showing unscented bags all have the "package may vary" text. D'Oh! | :doh:

Fortunately I didn't actually submit a new order before noticing.

I started ordering them, along with most non-perishable items online a few years ago after my local store did a re-layout that appears to've been done to make finding things harder in the hope that by forcing people to wander around longer they'd make more impulse sales[1]. Jokes on them though, not only did I reduce the amount of stuff I buy there to keep my time spent the same; but whenever I'm on a "WT Elephant | [mastadon]

did they hide X" snipe hunt I not only keep walking past anything that would otherwise have been a potential impulse buy; but add it to the list of things I'll never buy from them.

[1] It's either that, or they got blackout drunk and moved stuff around by throwing darts at a map of the store. I doubt this though, it was too systematically awful to be random.

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Rage15-Jul-21 5:54

Rage

15-Jul-21 5:54

You buy trashbags online ? Unsure | :~

Dan Neely15-Jul-21 6:00

15-Jul-21 6:00

Even with shipping factored into Amazons prices it's still cheaper than what my local store charges; and as noted in a reply above I've been trying to reduce my spend there in protest to bad management actions.

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Rage15-Jul-21 6:08

Rage

15-Jul-21 6:08

Dan Neely wrote:
bad management actions

Probably to be compared to how Amazon are treating their employees and destructing jobs everywhere, but I get your point. I have multiple stores for trivial things around, so this is not going to happen any soon that we have only online as an alternative/protest. Buying from Amazon remains the exception, fortunately.

Dan Neely15-Jul-21 6:16

15-Jul-21 6:16

Unfortunately I only have one reasonably close large grocery chain.

There used to be a second (but it was generally lower quality or more expensive), but the company who owned all its localish franchises went bust a decade ago; and the current quasi-monopoly bought all their buildings in the bankruptcy sale to prevent a rival from moving in. That leaves me with various dollar stores, one medium sized grocery in a poor part of town that almost exclusively has cheap low quality stuff, and if I want to drive 20+ minutes across town a Wallmarx. Dead | X|

Paddington Bear15-Jul-21 6:23

Paddington Bear

15-Jul-21 6:23

Rage wrote:
how Amazon are treating their employees and destructing jobs

Notwithstanding their environmental issues:

Amazon destroying millions of items of unsold stock in one of its UK warehouses every year, ITV News investigation finds | ITV News[^]

It goes without saying

musefan15-Jul-21 6:06

musefan

15-Jul-21 6:06

Wishlists have a similar problem. By the time someone actually wants to buy something on a wishlist, the product page it's linked to has often changed, particularly the price has gone up!

I always do a fresh search whenever I want to buy anything. Even a repeat order. It's the only reliable way to be sure you get what you expect, for the price you want.

obermd15-Jul-21 7:23

obermd

15-Jul-21 7:23

Perfect reason to NOT use auto-reorder for anything.

Dan Neely15-Jul-21 7:36

15-Jul-21 7:36

You completely missed the point. Because they changed the existing product record replacing the unscented bags with pre-stenched ones my normal manual reorder process would have and probably did fail as well.