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<font face="Comic Sans MS">Good advice for us ad hoc curators of our
various techy museums, thanks.<br>
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Terry N4TLF wrote on 12/17/2015 9:07 PM:
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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
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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>
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<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> </div>
<div><b>Subject:</b> stabs from the past</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>
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