[rescue] Floppies FTGH (Ottawa, Canada)

[Lionel Peterson]

I keep a USB 3.5" floppy drive and a USB CD/DVD burner in my computer "tool box" - I've either used or loaned-out both to friends far more often than I would have thought.

I somehow ended up with several hundred blank DVD-R or CD-R discs, no idea what I'll ever do with them...

Ken

> On Oct 14, 2024, at 10:24, Mouse via rescue <rescue at sunhelp.org> wrote:
> 
> I just discovered a bunch of 3.5" floppies - the kind in a hard plastic
> shell with a metal slide covering the medium - that I'm ready to let go
> of.  I don't know how old they are; in particular, I don't know whether
> they are good quality or not, don't know whether the media is still
> good or not, etc.  I have 79 of them: an unopened pack of 50 plus an
> opened pack still containing 27 of them, plus two strays that aren't
> part of the opened pack (the plastic is a different colour).  I don't
> see any obvious corporate names or logos on any of them.
> 
> I have no idea what, if anything, is on any of them.  Nothing I care
> about preserving, I'm fairly sure of that much.
> 
> Pick up in Ottawa, Canada; if you are, or can be, in Ottawa, it's worth
> asking in case I can drop them off.
> 
> Given the disaster modern email is, I recommend anyone who doesn't
> already know they can reach me send a copy to mouse at netbsd.org as well;
> it forwards to the same place but has different filtering rules, and
> not infrequently works for people who can't reach me directly.  I've
> set a Reply-To: on this mail naming both addresses, but I don't know
> whether it will survive the list.
> 
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