how do i get data off 3.5 floppy?

[fallfornoone]

Hey guys
my parents have an old computer which only has a floppy drive and they have important financial data that they would like to transfer to a new computer. Ive search around but so far I can only find things about sending the floppys to outside companies to transfer the data. Is there any solution I can do at home? appreciate the help.

[ExtremeX]

How about you try using....... a floppy drive?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16821103402

[bohoki]

i make sure i can still handle some of the old formats zipdisk,3.5, 5.25

i had a shark drive for a while but i think i am the only person who ever used one

i can ever read commodore 64 disks

[winnre]

I miss my 8" drive.

[ExtremeX]

Pretty amazing winnre, I'm not old enough to have been privileged to the the 8" drive, my legacy stars with the 5.25".

[Deadbolt]

we had 1 8" i was allowed to use back in the day. It did wordprocessing in 2 colors: font color and background color

5.25 is when the real magic started /nerd

[alfred1222]

why dont u just get a floppy drive..??

[Rob454]

Go buy a external floppy drive. Fry's has them for about 20 bucks with USB connection

[nmerced]

we had 1 8" i was allowed to use back in the day. It did wordprocessing in 2 colors: font color and background color

5.25 is when the real magic started /nerd

Meh

[the86d]

I have stripped off like 30 Teac, epson, and NEC floppy drives off of machines destined for e-waste here at work, and put them in machines I use... even for home.

You never know when you need to update a bios and Windows or even Linux isn't installed yet...

[Barbarossa]

I keep a USB floppy here at work, along with a USB network card

[xrMike]

Pretty amazing winnre, I'm not old enough to have been privileged to the the 8" drive, my legacy stars with the 5.25".

I remember inserting 5.25s into my girlfriend's old Kaypro "portable" computer (it was the size of a small suitcase) and doing my collidge papers on that thing...

Eventually I got a Mac SE and was amazed at the giant technological leap -- a 3.5" drive! Woah!

[Flyin Brian]

Hey guys
my parents have an old computer which only has a floppy drive and they have important financial data that they would like to transfer to a new computer. Ive search around but so far I can only find things about sending the floppys to outside companies to transfer the data. Is there any solution I can do at home? appreciate the help.

Is the data stored on floppies or is it stored on an internal drive? Does the PC have USB?

[POLICESTATE]

I have a bunch of old source code and executable code in my store roomS on various media going back to the mid 80's, including on CHIPS.

[ibanezfoo]

I miss my 8" drive.

CP/M FTW!

I had an Adam that used audio cassettes for data storage.