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Ancient 8'' floppy drive needed

Aug 30, 2006 9:29AM PDT

I have a long document that was saved on two 8'' floppy discs (using a Xerox 860). I'm hoping that systems with these drives are still in use somewhere or, perhaps, by a data transfer service. If anyone reading this has such a thing and can copy either to a smaller size floppy, to a cd, transfer files via email attachment, or upload via FTP, please let me know.

Jake

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Link.
Aug 30, 2006 9:39AM PDT
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Wow. . .
Aug 31, 2006 10:26AM PDT

8" single and double side, single and double density, with sector sizes from 128 to 1024 bytes.

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(NT) (NT) Now we only need to discuss hard sectors.
Aug 31, 2006 11:35AM PDT