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You need at least 286 PC with a serial port, a serial to USB converter, and a null-modem cable. That may or may not be cheaper than the other options given, but it will take more time and effort.
And you could have gone for the epic 8".
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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I have a XP windows workstation.
diligent hands rule....
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The 286 would be running DOS. You don't even want to go there if that name says little.
It was a time when user-friendly was not yet even invented. The drive-connectors were huge with lots of wires in a band. More of those cables survived than the motherboards who support them.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Eddy is being a smart a$$ - we're in the lounge..
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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History isn't forbidden.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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No of course not and apologies, rereading your post you weren't being a smart a$$. Your history precedes you
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Those of us who are curious - why do you need a 5.25" drive?
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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That's what she said.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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See? I rest my case. lol
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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I have an old software on 5.25 inch floppy disk and I want to back it up...
diligent hands rule....
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You best invest in the mentioned solutions. Mine would work, but would require tenacity. You'd be mucking with transmission rates.
It can be done, but never worth the money.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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thank you for the solution! I will give a try...
diligent hands rule....
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The other solutions are more practical, but you're welcome
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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so you're copying the 5.25" to a USB or other more modern storage device?
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Yeah, finding truly unscented bags is difficult. We don't order them from online.
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Yeah. I might end up getting replacements at retail, on closer inspection in addition to being significantly larger (90/120 vs 60ish); it looks like the listings on Amazon showing unscented bags all have the "package may vary" text. Fortunately I didn't actually submit a new order before noticing.
I started ordering them, along with most non-perishable items online a few years ago after my local store did a re-layout that appears to've been done to make finding things harder in the hope that by forcing people to wander around longer they'd make more impulse sales[1]. Jokes on them though, not only did I reduce the amount of stuff I buy there to keep my time spent the same; but whenever I'm on a "WT did they hide X" snipe hunt I not only keep walking past anything that would otherwise have been a potential impulse buy; but add it to the list of things I'll never buy from them.
[1] It's either that, or they got blackout drunk and moved stuff around by throwing darts at a map of the store. I doubt this though, it was too systematically awful to be random.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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You buy trashbags online ?
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Even with shipping factored into Amazons prices it's still cheaper than what my local store charges; and as noted in a reply above I've been trying to reduce my spend there in protest to bad management actions.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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Dan Neely wrote: bad management actions
Probably to be compared to how Amazon are treating their employees and destructing jobs everywhere, but I get your point. I have multiple stores for trivial things around, so this is not going to happen any soon that we have only online as an alternative/protest. Buying from Amazon remains the exception, fortunately.
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Unfortunately I only have one reasonably close large grocery chain.
There used to be a second (but it was generally lower quality or more expensive), but the company who owned all its localish franchises went bust a decade ago; and the current quasi-monopoly bought all their buildings in the bankruptcy sale to prevent a rival from moving in. That leaves me with various dollar stores, one medium sized grocery in a poor part of town that almost exclusively has cheap low quality stuff, and if I want to drive 20+ minutes across town a Wallmarx.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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Wishlists have a similar problem. By the time someone actually wants to buy something on a wishlist, the product page it's linked to has often changed, particularly the price has gone up!
I always do a fresh search whenever I want to buy anything. Even a repeat order. It's the only reliable way to be sure you get what you expect, for the price you want.
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Perfect reason to NOT use auto-reorder for anything.
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You completely missed the point. Because they changed the existing product record replacing the unscented bags with pre-stenched ones my normal manual reorder process would have and probably did fail as well.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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