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That is a great thing to offer. It would be good if legacy format conversion was offered centrally, but in the absence of such service, it's good that MSUNAG fills a need otherwise lacking. No doubt many important digital artifacts worth preserving are stranded due to format obsolescence. /rich On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 10:24 AM, Clifford Beckett <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > ** > Hello MSU NAG > I thought I should send this to everyone just to be helpful. > I have a system set up just to do this. It has a HDDD 5.25 which can > read both DSDD and HD 5.25 disks. It has a 3.5 drive and it has a USB port > to write to flash drives and a CD burner. It is connected to the > MSUnet. It is running windows 98, because later versions of windows don't > read and write to 5.25 disks properly. > Cliff > > > On 12/8/2011 10:12 AM, Joe Mesterhazy wrote: > > I’m wondering if anyone has a 5.25” floppy drive laying around they no > longer need? I found all my old floppies back from my DOS BBS days and I’m > hoping to find some treasures in there. I’m pretty sure they are low > density. **** > > ** ** > > Joe**** > > --**** > > Joe Mesterhazy**** > > Radiology Engineering Group**** > > MSU Department of Radiology**** > > (517) 884-3298**** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > > > -- > Clifford L. Beckett office: 517-355-4659 > Electronic System Designer cell: 517-449-8226 > A411 E. Fee fax: 517-353-0789 > Radiology Department email: [log in to unmask] > Michigan State University web: www.obl.msu.edu > East Lansing MI, 48824 > >