i will be glad to take whatever is left On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Mike Miller <mbmiller+l at gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > > ______________________________**_________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/**mailman/listinfo/tclug-list<http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20110813/42094d0a/attachment.html>