[PrintOwners] Resurrecting Info from Floppy

[Borzou Azabdaftari]

I want to hear more about who's running windows 3.1....


Borzou Azabdaftari
Falcon Print and Copy
1921 Gallows Road
Suite 150
Vienna, VA 22182
t.703.442.0124
f.703.442.0134
borzou at falconprintandcopy.com



On Mar 4, 2008, at 6:09 PM, Rick Bird wrote:

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> Michele,
>
> 	If you think the data may be of some use to you if you have a PC
> with windows 95 on it I find that program/operating system is very  
> friendly
> to older data opening.  I have a customer who still uses windows 3.1  
> so my
> 95 get s usage once a month.  Only thing to consider is the data on  
> those
> disks may not work with any thing much newer as far as operating  
> systems.
> But hey free is a nice word, if you have the older program open one  
> up save
> it and see what it gives you.
>
> 	Could be exciting might be something of great value..:)
>
> JMTC
>
> Rick Bird
> Gamble Printing & Mailing Inc.
> 3649 California Road
> Orchard Park, NY 14127
> (716) 662-1515
> (716) 662-5917 - Fax
> gamble at choiceonemail.com - email
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:printowners-bounces at printweb.org] On Behalf Of Michelle at  
> Interior
> Graphics
> Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 2:43 PM
> To: Printowners
> Subject: [PrintOwners] Resurrecting Info from Floppy
>
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> I have inherited a safe full of floppy disks with my business
> purchase.  Most of the floppies aren't worth anything (wait a minute
> - is there a market on ebay for Windows 3.0 startup floppies?)
> However, there are boxes of eps clip art files that I would like to
> put on my hard drive so I can use them.
>
> When I plug in the USB floppy disk drive to my Mac and insert the
> disk, nothing happens.  I've tried it in the PC and it just wants me
> to format the disk.  All of the Mac's are on system 10, maybe that's
> it? Is there any way to get the files off, or is this something else
> for the dump?  Thank you!
>
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Michelle Maynor
> "Your Personal Printer"
> Interior Graphics & Printing
> 770 8th Avenue
> Fairbanks, AK 99701
> 907.456.4982 phone
> 907.452.6992 fax
>
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> most." - John Ruskin
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