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trønderen wrote: And equally crazy putting pedal bikers at 7-15 km/hour in the same lane as 45 km/h mopeds
That's the sort of thing I object to. Placing different vehicles that have completely different acceleration/cruising speeds on the same roads.
I was about 7 when I realized a bike had no place on public roads. There's plenty of adults who don't understand that understand that but still believe it's their God-given right to impede traffic. They know they do, and don't care. The smug ones even take pleasure in it.
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Call it Sam, after Samuel W. Alderson[^] - he invented the crash test dummy. Something I don't think has ever been in that vehicle.
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I don't think Postman Pat's car has a name.
But how about Paxter McPacface?
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Postman Pat's van's registration no was PAT1, so calling it PATI would seem reasonable. There actually was a UK registration of PAT1 - it was owned by someone in the village that I used to live in.
Q. What did they call Postman Pat when he retired?
A. Pat
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I have a red 1988 Oldsmobile I call "The Olds", and everyone knows what I mean.
Call it "The Pax" (until someone else on the block gets one).
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recently I bought a legacy software in Windows 2000 era from eBay. It turns out this software is stored on three 5.25' floppy disks.
now I ran into the trouble: how can I copy these installation files into CD-Rom or other devices?
diligent hands rule....
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There's got to be some kind of floppy to USB converter I'd imagine.
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modified 8-Oct-20 15:37pm.
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Wow, you're right! I would not have expected that.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
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some 5.25' floppy disk drive price goes to $100+
diligent hands rule....
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How bad do you want this software, is it worth it?
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yes, it is worthy to take a look at it on my old XP machine...
diligent hands rule....
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Depends what is on the disks: back in those days one common form of DRM was to put deliberate faults on specific sectors, and check for those flaws during installation or app init.
If you really want it, Amazon sells USB 5 1/4" floppy drives, so FleaBay will as well.
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I think I was the last one to have a system which supported floppies and I replaced that a year ago.
I made sure I copied my floppies to my hard drive a few years ago.
I've seen 3.5" USB drives, but not 5.25"
Turbo BASIC v1.
Also two Star Trek font packs.
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thanks for good link
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Beware that lots of "preformatted" floppies sold did not have the proper format code written to the boot sector. Old DOS and early Windows versions tried one format after the other (180K, 360K, 720K, 1440K ...) until they found one that worked.
At some stage, MS guide said 'No more! There shall be a format code in the boot sector - the standard requires it to be there!' I believe this policy change came with Windows XP (correct me if I am wrong). After that, floppies without a proper format code was treated as "This floppy seems to be unformattet - do you want to format it now?"
The only reason I have to keep a Win95 installation available is for reading that sort of floppies without a proper format code. Reading the floppy from an external USB drive doesn't change it - no 32 bit Windows will accept a floppy without a format code, regardless of drive.
So if your floppies are not correctly coded, you may have to search up someone with a genuine Win95 installation, or earlier.
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thanks for sharing your experience
diligent hands rule....
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I was wondering when to scrap my 5150, but with 2 5.25 floppy drives I'm starting to make money.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Do you have a 5.25" drive?
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Southmountain wrote: a legacy software
You have said too much here : what software ?
5.25" was already oldskool in 2000, how old is your software ?
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And once you got the bits off the disk (and onto another disk): Do the bits make any sense?
You may be so lucky that you know in advance which file system was used on the floppy. You may know which applications were used to create the files. You may have access to the specs for the data format in the files.
Or you may be less lucky. Old floppies may be holding proprietary file systems, with files in proprietary data formats. You can't even take for granted that space is allocated in 8-bit byte units, or that text (including file names) is represented in anything ASCII-like encoding. Maybe it is, but you won't recognize it; e.g. DECsystem mainframes stored five seven-bit ASCII characters per 36 bit word. If an application wrote its text data in 36 bit words to the file, you couldn't read it without knowledge of the format.
It seems like the OP will not encounter that kind of problems, so this comment is mostly relevant for those trying to recover even older floppies.
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it is stock analysis software I like very much!
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I was going to suggest re-purposing a 3.5" USB enclosure as I vaguely remember the A: and B: drives using the same port on the card/motherboard even when different drive types were fitted. I would have been wrong - apparently the embedded chips in the enclosures can only handle 3.5"drives - I'm surprised they went to the bother of "restricting" them, I assumed re-using old chipsets would be cheaper. I've re-purposed old USB CD-ROMS as HDD interfaces plenty of times.
This looks fairly comprehensive (it's also where I found out my originall suggestion was bad):
How to read and write old floppy disks
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thanks for sharing that link and your thoughts
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