Fed up now...

[voodooflux]

Bit of blue sky here, but with a grey could approaching at a speed that will put it directly over my 10 minute walk to the car park around the time I go home in 30 minutes

[Diver]

Still dry here; but sky is darkening ominously

[cojak]

It's all grey here...


And I've got a hangover.

Still, I'm just waiting for my Bombay Bad Boy to rehydrate. That'll make me feel better....

[cojak]

*One Bombay Badboy later...

Oh yes, that hit the spot!

Onwards and upwards then...

Anyone for a NCOT?

[cojak]

Nice Cup of Tea

for all those newbies out there...

[Diver]

Got my tea. weather is dry but cloudy.

Have a load of old files on floppy Circa 1988. I need some of them so I have to convert them to a different format.

[RichardCranium]

First, find a 5.25" disk drive*....

Then hope against hope that the diskettes are readable...

In my experience the 360k ones last a lot longer than the 1.2M ones...



*of the requisite kind... 40 track DSDD or 80 track DSHD...

My server has a 5¼" HD drive 'just in case'. It happily reads 40 track DD diskettes anyway. Or at least, it used to when I last tried, some years ago.

But then, the missus bought a tape player last weekend.

[Diver]

You'll probably find that it's all bunged up with dust... then you'll have to find one of those 5.25" disk drive cleaner thingies that they don't make any more...

I still have one.

Had to load an old MS works word processor. It wouldn't print from it as I kept getting an "Out of memory" error when I tried.

Sorted it by bringing up the files in Works, select all, copy, then paste to MS Word 2007 and save under the new format.

Am I good or what

Downloaded two converters but they converted all the formatting out of the paperwork

[Diver]

Some of my files (documents) are from the early eighties. written in First Choice word Processor.
Converted them all to Txt a few years ago and then on to word Format.

Never know when I might need them

[RichardCranium]

It's too early.