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Originally Posted by Speelie
I meant my Webshots collection goes back to 2003. My photos go back about 5 years earlier, but there wasn't much good back then. Most of the roughly 20 year old stuff is on old floppy disks, and not worth seeking out a floppy drive to see again.
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I still have a computer that will read the 5.25 floppy disks along with the 3 inch ones. It is amazing how many businesses and individuals still have important data backed up to these disks and will pay good money to have that data transferred to media that their current systems can read. Some want it burnt to a CD, some want it on a thumb drive, but they panic when the realize that their computers cannot access that backed up information.
I just had a real estate investor who had all the purchase records for several properties on floppy disks, and he needed to print out copies for his taxes when he sold them. He was totally panicked when he realized his computer had no floppy drives. It took me about two hours to copy all his disks to CD and a thumb drive, and he got a very large bill. He was happy that he could access his data, and paid gladly