Don't copy that floppy...

[mycarsavw]

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Take your pick

[Behemoth]

If you've got a PII mobo with a BX chipset I'd gladly take one off your hands

Meanwhile, back on subject lol

[scaryjim]

I'd've thought old hardware *was* the topic of this thread, pretty much?

Those SD -> floppy adapters are great! Wish I'd had one of those back in 2003...

I currently have a P166 running DOS 6.22 + Win 3.11 for all my retro-gaming needs. Just need to dig it out, plug it into a monitor and actually install some games on it now

[mycarsavw]

If you've got a PII mobo with a BX chipset I'd gladly take one off your hands

Meanwhile, back on subject lol

Not sure of the chipset but I've got a PII serving Zetafax via a 28kbps fax modem.

The last time it was powered off was to change from BNC to Cat5.

...and it has a floppy drive!

[dbh]

I've still got a Pentium II 450 that's running windows xp my dads old pc ... just upgraded him to a Core i7 lol ! overkill indeed.

[pipTheGeek]

Of course what everyone needs is one of these. Also a good illustration that Apple don't always wrap their users in cotton wool.

I have several 5.25 inch floppies up in the loft. Along with a BBC B that can read them. I miss my BBC, does anyone have a BBC monitor? (and a bigger house to put it in )

I still support an Access 2 system at work which runs on a P133 system that not only has a floppy drive, it doesn't have a CD drive! I have to use a parallel port zip drive to copy stuff to/from it. Respect to Iomega though, they have drivers for the zip drive for XP available for download, even if you do have to jump through some hoops to get them.

[scaryjim]

Would you believe it, tried to dig out my big pile of old floppies this evening to have a go at boot-flashing the BIOS on a non-functioning motherboard, and I only went and threw them all away last time I moved house

I'm gonna have to dig around in work now to see if I can dig up a floppy disk...

[mycarsavw]

I'm gonna have to dig around in work now to see if I can dig up a floppy disk...

I have some if you really need one, drop me a PM and I'll post it out

[scaryjim]

Thanks for the offer, but as I suspected work has several boxes of blank floppies, and I know for a fact (as I'm the IT Manager ) that we don't use floppies at all any more! So, hopefully I can now do this to one of these

[Behemoth]

I had a chap in today @ work wanting buy some floppy disks, he was most upset when I told we don't sell them anymore.

That said, I don't need any retro hardware for the time being, the game I REALLY wanted to play I got to work on my current PC after a bit of digging around I found out how to do it through the aid of youtube

[Powderhound]

If you've got a PII mobo with a BX chipset I'd gladly take one off your hands

Meanwhile, back on subject lol

I've got a Gateway G6-266 Pentium II PC running Windows 95 in fully working order. My friends and I are planning a retro games party in the the Summer. We've pooled a PS2, Gamecube and N64 as well so far.

[Behemoth]

Retro gaming parties are always fun