Max Wanadoo
max.wanadoo at gmail.com
Fri Aug 14 15:07:56 CDT 2009
Have you tried upgrading. Sirius now do one with two floppy disks in it. Guess your still on the cassette eh? I used to have a Commodore 64 as well, and also an Atari. Guess you have three of them ah? Max -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller Sent: 14 August 2009 20:59 To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Diskettes I have three computers here and none of them have a floppy disk. Just for nostalgia, I run a DOS VM with Clipper and Artful.Lib. That is the only way I can run it. I no longer have a floppy drive of any kind but virtual. On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote: > You are right; they all have been replaced with USB and CD/DVD... even the > latest Linux systems do not support floppy unless you patch the product. > > I guess 3.5 are on the same trajectory as the 5.25... > _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com