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5.25 floppy discs~

DOES anyone on here have ANY idea how I download a bunch of term papers that I wrote back in 1988 from 5.25 "floppy's"?

I have several term papers from when I was in college, and I still have the 5.25 disk's that I saved them on.

Hmm-

That really brings up several good points: 1. How old is "old"? 2. So, does anyone have an old computer from 1989 that can handle the old 5.25 disks?

2. Are these disks even viable any more? I have tapes that I recorded from the stereo in 1981; WIOT in Toledo, a bunch of heavy metal. I can play them tonight and they sound great! But what about those term papers on disk that I saved in 1989?

3. I wrote several GREAT term papers! I was a different person then, non-political, and devoted to the turbocharged VW Scirocco that I drove. The car had the extremely-rare Legend FACTORY turbo; only 52 cars had this system, installed by the dealer. 128 hp, and 170 lb/ft in a 2200 pound chassis. Bottle rocket!

Maybe I wasn't so different afterall!

Anyway, I have all these 5.25 floppies laying around. What can be done with them? Does anyone know a company that can download them?

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