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From: "Mary Ann Rhodes" <>
Subject: Re: [BRE] Austin Cooper - 5-1/4" Disk Drive
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 17:21:40 -0500
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Galen,
I was born in So. CA. but now am in SC.
I put off getting a new computer. My son was coming down on the Sunday
before Vista was to be sold. I went thru a year of the new XP and did not
want Vista until it was working well. They took all of the XP computers and
the programs off the shelves on Saturday. On Sunday, there were no computers
to buy.
A couple of weeks later, I stopped to see if the person who had worked on my
computer could help me. He laughed said wait a minute and came back with a
box of XP programs. He had more also. He also had floppy drives.
I now have everything I need plus more than I will ever use for three to
four hundred dollars less than a store bought.
I imagine there is someone like him to has a new drive for your floppies. I
had some that were 10 years old I was not ready to use yet.
The first thing after I had the new one, put in a floppy. Works great like
the entire computer.

Good Luck,
Mary Ann R.



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Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 4:00 PM
Subject: Re: [BRE] Austin Cooper - 5-1/4" Disk Drive


>I also have a number of 5-1/4" floppy disks with information on them, but
>no
> 285 computer with both 5-1/4" and 3.5" floppy disk drives so I can
> transfer
> them up and read them.
>
> I found a 5-1/4" external disk drive but it is so old that the local
> computer
> shop said they wouldn't know how to hook it up.
>
> Would anyone - preferably in Southern California - have a working older
> computer with both 5-1/4th and 3.5" floppy disk drives?
>
> Galen
> La Verne
>
>
>
> **************************************See

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