‘Unreadable’ disks

3½" and Iomega Zip 100 floppy disks. I recall a long-ago conversation with the late Brian Shaffner at the long-since closed B&L Photo in Carbondale. He said that the US Census Bureau had data on tapes for which there no longer existed hardware to read them. In such a case, the data are just … well, lost.

This situation isn’t quite the same. One can still get external 3½" and Iomega Zip drives and the drivers to read these disks, but my labels indicate that there isn’t anything essential on these floppies that didn’t get transferred to USB flash drives or my current external hard drive.

So I’ll just pry open the 3½" diskettes, unscrew the Zip disks, and cut up the floppy disks that are inside. Again, this is a home, not a museum!

• Floppy disk
    » 3½" floppy disk/drive
• Iomega Zip disk/drive
• USB flash drive

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[Mags]

LOL! I'm not so sure what to do with all of mine either.

[Thom Mitchell]

@marlboromaam I will show in one or two future posts. :)

[Mags]

@rhoing I'm very interested to see. =)

[Kathy]

Glad mine have been disposed of long ago.

[Danette Thompson]

That’s quite the collection. I vote for opening a museum. 😂. That is sad about the census information. I have been relying on old census data to prove our longevity in Florida.