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Subject: [Leica] TECHNICAL QUESTION?? ANSWER PLEASE???
From: meino at innerside.demon.nl (Meino de Graaf)
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 19:23:08 +0100
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Ted

is this what you are looking for?

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2027943/how-to-access-your-old-3-5-inch-floppy-disks.html

regards
Meino de Graaf

On 11/20/2014 7:14 PM, Ted Grant wrote:
> HI CREW,
> Yeah I know it's me asking a techie question! :-) Well you all know "I'm
> clueless when it comes to techie things."
>   So please be kind to the "old lad." Thank you. :-)
>
> Remember those little, I think they were about 2"X 2"square discs we loaded
> all kinds of images on? Then technologies advanced and we moved to CD's and
> Memory Sticks" And heaven knows what?
>
> I have quite a number of those 2X2 discs, if that's what they're called?
>
> Can I take them to some computer techie shop and have the info on them
> downloaded to memory sticks of today? I'm sure there's a wealth of "old
> images" loaded on them and I'd like to retrieve them if possible? And not
> going to cost the Bank of Canada monetary reserves to pay for the change
> over? :-)
>
> At one time I did have a back-up hard drive, unfortunately the chap
> installing it didn't do it right! YEP you guessed! So when we did have a
> computer crash and burn I lost about 10,000 images because the back-up 
> drive
> wasn't doing anything but taking up space in my little computer room!!! :-(
> :-(
>
> Your suggestions please.
>
> Thanks a bunch.
>
> cheers,
> ted
>
>
>
>
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