{"id":2107,"date":"2011-08-29T14:19:58","date_gmt":"2011-08-29T20:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=2107"},"modified":"2011-08-29T14:39:08","modified_gmt":"2011-08-29T20:39:08","slug":"the-last-of-the-5-floppies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=2107","title":{"rendered":"The Last of the 5&#8243; Floppies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/TP3Floppy325Wide.jpg\" style=\"DISPLAY: inline; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 8px 0px 0px; WIDTH: 324px; HEIGHT: 320px\" height=\"320\" alt=\"TP3Floppy325Wide.jpg\" width=\"324\"\/>The AC works again, though now that it does, the hot spell has broken and we don&#8217;t really need it. (Love that 72 degree stuff!) However, Carol and I have some cleanup to do, as the air handler made a honking puddle on the furnace room floor downstairs, soaking the bottoms of a number of boxes. Some of those contained Christmas stuff, including my old Lionel trains. More intriguing, another, smaller, box contained a stash of 5 1\/4&#8243; floppies from the late 1980s and early 1990s. I went through it to see if there were any old backups to be destroyed (there were none) but the commercial software lineup in the box is pretty impressive:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Turbo Pascal 2.0 (includig Turbo 87), 3.0, 4.0, 5.0, and 5.5<\/li>\n<li>Turbo Pascal for Windows<\/li>\n<li>Mystic Pascal<\/li>\n<li>QuickPascal 1.0<\/li>\n<li>TopSpeed Modula 2<\/li>\n<li>TopSpeed C<\/li>\n<li>Stony Brook Modula 2<\/li>\n<li>Smalltalk\/V286<\/li>\n<li>Turbo Basic<\/li>\n<li>Quick C<\/li>\n<li>Reflex 1.0 and 2.0<\/li>\n<li>Turbo Lightning<\/li>\n<li>Paradox 2<\/li>\n<li>WordStar 3.02<\/li>\n<li>MS Word 6.0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230;and lots of additional stuff from Borland and other companies, most long gone. Falk Data Systems; Software Science, Inc; Digitalk; Adapta Software, and on and on and on.<\/p>\n<p>The box is toast, and I&#8217;m thinking that most or all of the disks have long since become unreadable. Still, it would be interesting to see how true that is. I checked my Paradox 4.0 3 1\/2&#8243; floppies from 1993 just now and they still read, so I suppose it&#8217;s possible. Alas, I haven&#8217;t had a 5 1\/4&#8243; floppy drive in the house in years. I&#8217;ll be going up to OEM Parts later this week to gather a few things to replenish my parts drawers, and I&#8217;ll bet they have a drive on the greasy old crap table. I&#8217;ve even got a working machine in the to-be-recycled pile with an open front bay to put it in.<\/p>\n<p>I know, I know&#8211;bad use of my time. But at very least I&#8217;m going to rejoin the Turbo Pascal 2.0, 3.0, and 4.0 floppies with the manuals, which are still on the top here in my office. I&#8217;m sure I can part with the rest. Those, well&#8230;in a very real sense they helped pay for the house we&#8217;re now living in, so I&#8217;ll add them to my memoirs archive. And just in case they <em>do<\/em> read&#8230;I can bring up a DOS VM in ninety seconds flat!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AC works again, though now that it does, the hot spell has broken and we don&#8217;t really need it. (Love that 72 degree stuff!) 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