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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">You should be able to borrow a converter from the Lexington Cary public library.</div>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">See <a href="https://carylibrary.org/floppy-disk-drive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FLOPPY DISK DRIVE</a> which is a USB to 1.44MB floppy disk reader.</div>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">It's in the <a href="https://carylibrary.org/library-things" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Library of Things</a>.</div>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">-- Mitch</div>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">On 2023-08-21 17:58, Smita Desai via LCTG wrote:
<blockquote type="cite" style="padding: 0 0.4em; border-left: #1010ff 2px solid; margin: 0">Not sure about the services but I had used an external floppy drive<br />that connected to a USB port. And it worked wel. And if it is USB,<br />should work. Amazon has good return policy.<br />Unfortunately I got rid of mine <br /><br />Best,<br />Smita Desai <br /><br />Sent from my iPhone<br /><br />
<blockquote type="cite" style="padding: 0 0.4em; border-left: #1010ff 2px solid; margin: 0">On Aug 21, 2023, at 5:51 PM, Tracy Marks via LCTG <<a href="mailto:lctg@lists.toku.us">lctg@lists.toku.us</a>> wrote:<br /><br />Folks -<br />I'm somewhat of a lurker on this list, and am not very tech-savvy but<br />have taught Photoshop, Elements and Gmail for years.<br /><br />ISSUE:<br />I have about a dozen floppy disks (3.5) with an unpublished book<br />manuscript that I want to transfer to Windows 10 to reformat and<br />submit (maybe) to a publisher. Granted,I don't know if the disks<br />are still readable.<br /><br />There seem to be two options:<br />a) Send disks to a service that transfers floppy disk material<br />to a cd (or makes it downloadable). That makes me nervous<br />because of the cost and the trust involved.<br />b) Purchase a floppy disk external drive.<br /><br />The latter makes the most sense but I see dozens of posts online about<br />people running into technical difficulties with external disk drives<br />readable by Windows 10 and I don't have the technical savvy, or time/<br />health/energy to deal with more stress right now.<br /><br />Does anyone who has done this have a recommendation for:<br />--service to use and/or<br />--external floppy disk drives (granted, many are being sold used but<br /> Amazon does sell some<br /> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/usb-floppy-drive-windows-10/s?k=usb+floppy+drive+windows+10" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.amazon.com/usb-floppy-drive-windows-10/s?k=usb+floppy+drive+windows+10</a><br />This looks like a good bet<br /><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Chuanganzhuo-Floppy-External-Desktop-Windows/dp/B0C33XQYQ8" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.amazon.com/Chuanganzhuo-Floppy-External-Desktop-Windows/dp/B0C33XQYQ8</a><br /><br />Tracy Marks<br />===============================================<br />::The Lexington Computer and Technology Group Mailing List::<br />Reply goes to sender only; Reply All to send to list.<br />Send to the list: <a href="mailto:LCTG@lists.toku.us">LCTG@lists.toku.us</a> Message archives: <a href="http://lists.toku.us/pipermail/lctg-toku.us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://lists.toku.us/pipermail/lctg-toku.us/</a><br />To subscribe: email <a href="mailto:lctg-subscribe@toku.us">lctg-subscribe@toku.us</a> To unsubscribe: email <a href="mailto:lctg-unsubscribe@toku.us">lctg-unsubscribe@toku.us</a><br />Future and Past meeting information: <a href="http://LCTG.toku.us" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://LCTG.toku.us</a><br />List information: <a href="http://lists.toku.us/listinfo.cgi/lctg-toku.us" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://lists.toku.us/listinfo.cgi/lctg-toku.us</a><br />This message was sent to <a href="mailto:smitausa@gmail.com">smitausa@gmail.com</a>.<br />Set your list options: <a href="http://lists.toku.us/options.cgi/lctg-toku.us/smitausa@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://lists.toku.us/options.cgi/lctg-toku.us/smitausa@gmail.com</a></blockquote>
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