Mystery floppy

[CAMRAMan]

I've found a 3.5" floppy disk with 'Essays' written on it in my writing. It's either work from my 2nd and 3rd years at UEA in the early 90s or my MSc from 94/95.


Does anyone have a drive that can read this and, more importantly, the ability to convert the files thereon to a currently readable format?

[Jaded]

I still have a 3.5" drive, external that connects via USB. No idea if it still works.

[CAMRAMan]

So do I, but it's in Budapest!

Would you mind if I sent it off to you?

[Jaded]

No problem. I'll pm address!

[Bledlow]

USB floppy drives still sold! From about £11 to £30.

What were the essays written in?

[rogerzilla]

If it's super-hot pr0n disguised as "Essays", please post to OT Gallery, kthxbai.

[felstedrider]

OT but I was at UEA around then.

[lissotriton]

If it's super-hot pr0n disguised as "Essays", please post to OT Gallery, kthxbai.

Wouldn't fit much on a floppy disk. Unless it is ASCII pr0n.

[Basil]

Oh come on! Someone had to do this.

I had a floppy.
Mrs B was most displeased.

[DaveReading]

Don't spend too much on a floppy drive - after all this time, it's highly likely that the disk will be unreadable anyway.

[Jaded]

Oh come on! Someone had to do this.

I had a floppy.
Mrs B was most displeased.

Didn't she have anything suitable to plug it in to?

[Kim]

Don't spend too much on a floppy drive - after all this time, it's highly likely that the disk will be unreadable anyway.

And if it is, probably worth trying in another drive in case the hardware's being fussy.  Back in the day I'd often encounter disks that were corrupted on one machine but readable on another.

It's interesting which floppy disks have deteriorated.  Obviously the novelty ones you bought at a vastly inflated price from a supermarket after all the cool kids were using Zip are crap, but some of the name brands have fared surprisingly poorly.  Whatever it was Microsoft used to ship Windows on seem pretty sturdy, though.  (We acquired a job lot of NT3 install media at one point, which kept us in floppies until they were thoroughly obsolete.)

[CAMRAMan]

OT but I was at UEA around then.

Which school? I was EUR.

[felstedrider]

OT but I was at UEA around then.

Which school? I was EUR.

SYS 91-94

[Lightning Phil]

If it's super-hot pr0n disguised as "Essays", please post to OT Gallery, kthxbai.

Wouldn't fit much on a floppy disk. Unless it is ASCII pr0n.

1.44 MB and jpeg you’d get a few images to fit.