The Old New Thing

I thought I was so clever, salvaging an old floppy drive from a dead computer, but I didn't think *two* steps ahead…

April 24, 2012 Apr 24, 2012 04/24/12

Raymond Chen

When one of the oldest computers at Microsoft still doing useful work finally died, I had the presence of mind to salvage the 5¼″ floppy drive from the machine, so that I could (someday) extract the data off all the old 5¼″ floppy discs I have packed away in boxes meaning to convert someday. (Mind you, the data ...