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<DIV>Cool!</DIV>
<DIV>Clean your drive heads and felt pads pretty good after each floppy use,
otherwise you might get a white powder on them, and then scratches on the
media. (alcohol ok on heads, but pads should not get wet. No pads on
double-sided drives!!) Also, don’t close the floppy door until the
machine has had power for a few seconds, otherwise the BANG of the heads at
power-up might destroy the media. Depending on drive manufacturer.</DIV>
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<DIV>I still have original IBM and MS Dos disks back to 1.something, and Windows
3.1 and GEM, and MS assembler, along with very early Linux (0.95?)
floppies. I also have my original IBM 5150 (five-slot) computer, less CGA
monitor.</DIV>
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<DIV>I also have CP/M and MP/M, plus most of the CP/M, North Star, and NJ CP/M
user groups disks. Along with an IMSAI, two Altairs, and a Xerox 820
computer. Most still run, with Shuggart 400 or 800 drives.</DIV>
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<DIV>I have Autocad for CP/M, but not for DOS/Windows anymore. At least, I
haven’t found those disks yet....</DIV>
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<DIV>How about a nice game of chess?</DIV>
<DIV>73, Terry, N4TLF</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=beatnic@comcast.net
href="mailto:beatnic@comcast.net">Alex Fraser</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, December 17, 2015 7:28 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=tacos@amrad.org href="mailto:tacos@amrad.org">TACOS</A>
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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> stabs from the past</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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face="Comic Sans MS">This time of year, when it is dark a lot, I sometime get
nostalgic and root through the back spaces of the basement. <BR>Poems,
drawings, diary snips and old love letters, but wait, I found a box of floppy
disks! In it were my original MS Dos 6 disks, windows 3.11 disks and <BR>a
set I've been looking all over for, my Autocad Light for windows
disks. I even have a machine with a floppy drive. I'll see if I can
read any of these antiques.<BR></FONT><PRE class=moz-signature cols="72">--
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