{"id":7793,"date":"2012-04-24T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-24T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2012\/04\/24\/i-thought-i-was-so-clever-salvaging-an-old-floppy-drive-from-a-dead-computer-but-i-didnt-think-two-steps-ahead\/"},"modified":"2012-04-24T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T07:00:00","slug":"i-thought-i-was-so-clever-salvaging-an-old-floppy-drive-from-a-dead-computer-but-i-didnt-think-two-steps-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20120424-00\/?p=7793","title":{"rendered":"I thought I was so clever, salvaging an old floppy drive from a dead computer, but I didn&#039;t think *two* steps ahead&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2005\/04\/11\/407130.aspx\"> one of the oldest computers at Microsoft still doing useful work<\/a> finally died, I had the presence of mind to salvage the 5&frac14;&Prime; floppy drive from the machine, so that I could (someday) extract the data off all the old 5&frac14;&Prime; floppy discs I have packed away in boxes meaning to convert someday. (Mind you, the data capacity of a giant box of 5&amp;frac14&Prime; floppy disks is approximately equal to half of a CD.)\n Oh, and by the way, if you know what a floppy drive is, then <a href=\"http:\/\/superuser.com\/questions\/231273\/what-are-the-windows-a-and-b-drives-used-for\"> this question on superuser.com<\/a> will make you feel old.\n I thought I was so clever, salvaging an old floppy drive from a dead computer so I could use it to rescue data from obsolescence, but that was only thinking one step ahead. I failed to think <i>two<\/i> steps ahead: Nobody makes motherboards with 5&frac14;&Prime; floppy drive connectors!<\/p>\n<p> <b>Bonus coincidental posting date<\/b>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/gamelife\/2012\/04\/prince-of-persia-source-code\/\"> <i>The Geeks Who Saved<\/i> Prince of Persia<i>&#8216;s Source Code From Digital Death<\/i><\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When one of the oldest computers at Microsoft still doing useful work finally died, I had the presence of mind to salvage the 5&frac14;&Prime; floppy drive from the machine, so that I could (someday) extract the data off all the old 5&frac14;&Prime; floppy discs I have packed away in boxes meaning to convert someday. (Mind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-7793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>When one of the oldest computers at Microsoft still doing useful work finally died, I had the presence of mind to salvage the 5&frac14;&Prime; floppy drive from the machine, so that I could (someday) extract the data off all the old 5&frac14;&Prime; floppy discs I have packed away in boxes meaning to convert someday. (Mind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}