After years of sitting on the shelf i finally dumped a lot of vintage drives.
And Murphy struck again!
2 weeks later:
Was given the task to archive old records and some were on 5 inch floppy.
I can get a 5 inch floppy drive but it would be costly!
Plus the software to read the files is nearly unobtanium without paying an arm, a leg, and a left nut too!
The data is not worth that much bother since it is from the late 80’s and early 90’s
I tried something like that a few years ago, with a USB floppy drive. It was very hard to get anything to read, a huge waste of time.
I was able to recover the files from the pile of 3.5 floppies and sucessfully archived them ( in the proper order)
But i think we might contract out the digitizing of the old records, ( there are about 120 years worth we would like to preserve) and remove the originals to a safe storage vault.
Financial documentation does not to be maintained past the statute of limitations but historic documents do need to be preserved.
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