Carol, will you give further details about what you bought from smartdisk.com that enabled you to read your floppies on a computer without a floppy drive? I went to smart-disk.com but did not find what I thought you were talking about. Exactly what did you buy? I thought I had transferred all data from old floppies to CD's but occasionally find a file where I saved some floppies. I recently found some which have information from the archives in Germany and I really would like to get that off the floppy and onto a disk. Thanks. Wanda ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lorac" <radford2@bellsouth.net> To: <gen-newbie@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, December 26, 2011 2:25 PM Subject: Re: [GN] Has anyone tried this method of moving OE to > Merry Xmas all. In trying to absorb all the good information on how to's > for Outlook and Thunderbird, I > thought you all might be interested how I solved the "saving emails" from > Outlook and others... > > I am so low teched that I keep doing what I have done since 1995 with my > emails in Outlook. I saved them on a floppy!!!! I had a lot of floppies > left when I got a laptop without the floppy drive. And those emails, > photo's > saved on the floppy. So, I just picked up from the last email I saved on > my > 3-1/2" floppy...I have them dated by year. > > To read them I bought for $14.95 floppy reader from SmartDisk @ > www.smartdisk.com > it reads floppies and older memory cards. Just plug it in a USB port and > voila!!! So low tech that even I can do ...I have a hub and plug it in > and > am set to go to save or send...as a safe guard after thinking about it, I > made copies of each floppy in case of failure. > > Carol
We have a USB plug in floppy disk player that we can just attach when we need it. About $20 if I remember right. Has been handy and can travel between both computers... Neysa ----- Original Message ----- From: Ridge To: gen-newbie@rootsweb.com Sent: Monday, December 26, 2011 4:21 PM Subject: [GN] Moving files from floppies - reference Carol's email to list Carol, will you give further details about what you bought from smartdisk.com that enabled you to read your floppies on a computer without a floppy drive? I went to smart-disk.com but did not find what I thought you were talking about. Exactly what did you buy? I thought I had transferred all data from old floppies to CD's but occasionally find a file where I saved some floppies. I recently found some which have information from the archives in Germany and I really would like to get that off the floppy and onto a disk. Thanks. Wanda ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lorac" <radford2@bellsouth.net> To: <gen-newbie@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, December 26, 2011 2:25 PM Subject: Re: [GN] Has anyone tried this method of moving OE to > Merry Xmas all. In trying to absorb all the good information on how to's > for Outlook and Thunderbird, I > thought you all might be interested how I solved the "saving emails" from > Outlook and others... > > I am so low teched that I keep doing what I have done since 1995 with my > emails in Outlook. I saved them on a floppy!!!! I had a lot of floppies > left when I got a laptop without the floppy drive. And those emails, > photo's > saved on the floppy. So, I just picked up from the last email I saved on > my > 3-1/2" floppy...I have them dated by year. > > To read them I bought for $14.95 floppy reader from SmartDisk @ > www.smartdisk.com > it reads floppies and older memory cards. Just plug it in a USB port and > voila!!! So low tech that even I can do ...I have a hub and plug it in > and > am set to go to save or send...as a safe guard after thinking about it, I > made copies of each floppy in case of failure. > > Carol ******************** Gen-Newbie's website: http://www.rootsweb.com/~newbie/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GEN-NEWBIE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message