Maybe I can sell mine for a few hundred $ each to boeing? I've got at least 50 of them left. And I built up a pretty good stock of blank CDs and DVDs before they suddenly became obsolete. I'm a horrible pack rat, but have reformed a little. Over the last year I gave up some precious cartridge tapes and bernoullis. I've hung on to one each of an 8", 5-1/4". and 3-1/2" floppy drive. I bought a couple of 8" drives in the 70s for about $500 each! I can't remember what the ST506, the first 5-1/4 inch hard disk cost.
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Remember Zip Drives, they were used alot at work.
The only Floppies I still have left are O/S and older programs. Even Novell
Technically, the 5-1/4" were trademarked "mini-floppies" and were created by Shurgart Associates in Sunnyvale, CA circa 1976. The model of the drive was the SA-400. Ex- wife was a QA inspector for them at the time. Owner Al Shugart later sold that co. to Xerox and founded Seagate Technology.
The equipment that I work on is Window's XP based and some DOS based.
Over the last few years the OEM has been having issues getting certain components for the PC's that are running XP, so they did come up with software to work with Window's 10. If one PC crashes and a Window's 10 PC is needed, then every other PC also has to be upgraded, and it is a absolute clusterfuck once the update is done.
I fully understand why Boeing would still use 3.5's. Don't touch it if it isn't broken.
Absolutely and it is the same reason why Dahua is still IE based at the end of the day, but many NOOB refuse to accept that these are things companies do.
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