On Sat, 13 Aug 2011, Brian Wood wrote: >> I think it's OK -- interesting to see that I'm not the only person in the >> world who would want such a thing. I have a 5 1/2" drive on one of my old >> computers and I used it recently to copy old data off of some disks that I >> then threw away. My new way is to back things up by copying them to >> multiple computers in different buildings. HDD space is pretty cheap now. > > I think they are 5.25" drives. That's right! 5 1/4" and 3 1/2". It's hard to remember the sizes when we never use them anymore, practicaly speaking. It used to take me a lot longer to copy a 1 MB file to a 3 1/2" floppy on the same machine in the USA than it took to copy it to a harddrive on a machine in Australia. Mike