[plug] Slightly OT.. 5 1/4 Drives

[Daniel Pearson]

Hi Nick,
Just been around to Russ', everything went great so I probably won't be
needing your services.

Thanks for the offer though.

Cheers,
Daniel

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nick Bannon" <nick at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Monday, December 22, 2003 4:19 PM
Subject: Re: [plug] Slightly OT.. 5 1/4 Drives


> On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 08:07:20PM +0800, Daniel Pearson wrote:
> > Hi Guys,
> > I've just found a few old games that I *really* used to love playing
when I
> > was quite young, only problem is they're on 5 1/4" disks.. does anyone
have
> > a computer that can read these, and if so can we get them onto some 3.5"
> > disks?
>
> Yes, indeed - if Russ hasn't set you right already, I have some
> machines with 5.25" floppy drives. One of them even booted MS-DOS 3.3
> from a 1.2MB floppy a couple of weeks ago. ::-)
>
> Access to the UCC may be a bit patchy over the Christmas break, but it
> is doable, and it's a better place than most to play with these sorts
> of things. <grin>
>
> Nick.
>
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