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On Sat, 25 Mar 2017 16:32:09 -0300, pjp
wrote: In article , says... On Sat, 25 Mar 2017 12:00:14 -0300, pjp wrote: My old floppies are all stored in a box under the basement stairs. Few thousand at least. None of it is worth even attempting to read anymore, all over 20 years old. Most disks won't even format properly and the few that do can't be trusted anyway. My last computer had a floppy drive that I insisted the builder install in it. I had it for about five years and never used it, not even once. So my current computer doesn't have a floppy drive, and I threw out all my old floppies. I'm unsure if buying new floppies would improve that but why bother when dvd's can be had for $0.30 a disk bought in bulk. Even less--about $.20 each. Anything of value got copied and burned onto cd/dvd's years ago now. Same here. Canada, when not on sale low $30's for 100 stack. I know nothing about Canadian prices. Amazon has several brands for around $20 a hundred. |
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On Sat, 25 Mar 2017 14:04:07 -0500, Char Jackson
wrote: On Sat, 25 Mar 2017 18:32:36 +0100, "Linea Recta" wrote: As you can see, I don't use the floppy drive very often. I didn't notice it disfunctioning from 6-1-2017 until yesterday... I read that date as June 1, 2017, and thought it was odd before realizing it's really January 6, 2017. :-) I don't like either method of formatting dates. As far as I'm concerned, it should be Y-M-D, since that's sortable. |
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On Sat, 25 Mar 2017 12:51:48 -0700, Ken Blake
wrote: On Sat, 25 Mar 2017 14:04:07 -0500, Char Jackson wrote: On Sat, 25 Mar 2017 18:32:36 +0100, "Linea Recta" wrote: As you can see, I don't use the floppy drive very often. I didn't notice it disfunctioning from 6-1-2017 until yesterday... I read that date as June 1, 2017, and thought it was odd before realizing it's really January 6, 2017. :-) I don't like either method of formatting dates. As far as I'm concerned, it should be Y-M-D, since that's sortable. +1 That's what I use for all my backups. []'s -- Don't be evil - Google 2004 We have a new policy - Google 2012 |
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On Sat, 25 Mar 2017 12:51:48 -0700, Ken Blake
wrote: On Sat, 25 Mar 2017 14:04:07 -0500, Char Jackson wrote: On Sat, 25 Mar 2017 18:32:36 +0100, "Linea Recta" wrote: As you can see, I don't use the floppy drive very often. I didn't notice it disfunctioning from 6-1-2017 until yesterday... I read that date as June 1, 2017, and thought it was odd before realizing it's really January 6, 2017. :-) I don't like either method of formatting dates. As far as I'm concerned, it should be Y-M-D, since that's sortable. +1 |
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On 03/25/2017 02:04 PM, Char Jackson wrote:
On Sat, 25 Mar 2017 18:32:36 +0100, "Linea Recta" wrote: As you can see, I don't use the floppy drive very often. I didn't notice it disfunctioning from 6-1-2017 until yesterday... I read that date as June 1, 2017, and thought it was odd before realizing it's really January 6, 2017. :-) I would prefer Jan 6 2017 (although 6 Jan 2017 is OK too), eliminating the ambiguity. If I was writing the date for my own use, I use 2017-1-6 (decreasing order of significance makes sense, and its the same way most TIME parts are written). -- Mark Lloyd http://notstupid.us/ "My husband is not a Christian but is a religious man, I think." [Lincoln's wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, in _Toward The Mystery_] |
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On 03/25/2017 10:45 AM, Ken Blake wrote:
[snip] My last computer had a floppy drive that I insisted the builder install in it. I had it for about five years and never used it, not even once. So my current computer doesn't have a floppy drive, and I threw out all my old floppies. I have one computer with floppy drives. One is more than enough. BTW, that system uses a PII-class Celeron processor on a motherboard marked "Y2K compliant". Several newer desktop cases have a place to put a 3.5-inch floppy, but I have memory card readers (much more useful) there. [snip] -- Mark Lloyd http://notstupid.us/ "My husband is not a Christian but is a religious man, I think." [Lincoln's wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, in _Toward The Mystery_] |
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On 03/25/2017 03:14 PM, Shadow wrote:
[snip] I don't like either method of formatting dates. As far as I'm concerned, it should be Y-M-D, since that's sortable. +1 That's what I use for all my backups. []'s I do too. I have several with dates like "2017-2-28" (decreasing significance makes sense). Right now, it's 2017-3-25 17:10:27 (9 months until Christmas) -- Mark Lloyd http://notstupid.us/ "My husband is not a Christian but is a religious man, I think." [Lincoln's wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, in _Toward The Mystery_] |
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On 3/25/2017 3:08 PM, Mark Lloyd wrote:
On 03/25/2017 10:45 AM, Ken Blake wrote: [snip] My last computer had a floppy drive that I insisted the builder install in it. I had it for about five years and never used it, not even once. So my current computer doesn't have a floppy drive, and I threw out all my old floppies. I have one computer with floppy drives. One is more than enough. BTW, that system uses a PII-class Celeron processor on a motherboard marked "Y2K compliant". Several newer desktop cases have a place to put a 3.5-inch floppy, but I have memory card readers (much more useful) there. [snip] I have a USB floppy drive but haven't had a need for it for many years. Can't even sell it on CL for $5, lol. |
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On 03/25/2017 04:12 PM, Monty wrote:
[snip] I don't like either method of formatting dates. As far as I'm concerned, it should be Y-M-D, since that's sortable. +1 Sortable when you include the leading zeros, so its 2017-03-25. (or 20170325 since there's now no need for delimiters). |
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