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Pacific Northwest Original 3.5" installation disks

Covers: Oregon and Washington
Chuck(G)

Chuck(G)

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I'm discovering "overlfow" floppies from my collection and quite honestly, I don't know what to do with them or if anyone cares. Pretty much all driver disks; I don't know if they're already on the web, however, I'm not inclined to scan a couple hundred of these things.
Examples: drivers for STB Viper, STB Vision, STB Vision Pro, PCBoard, varies Cirrus Logic and Tseng labs video drivers. MaxB;ast. Smart Drive, etc. hard disk utilities, various SCSI drivers--even a copy of Landmark VirusCure from 1990 and the ScanMan 1.1 ScanWare and PaintShowPlus.
These are not copies, but the original factory disks. Mixed 720K and 1.44MB media.

Any suggestions? I'm sure as I keep digging into my stacks that there are many of these things stashed away and utterly forgotten.
 
Are these untouched disks you acquired with hardware purchases? I hate when people put newer drivers onto OEM disks or just dump misc. files on them.

Generally, when I get driver disks, I image them and throw them on my server in case the disks get damaged, develop bit rot or I just lose one. I assume you got rid of the hardware and just never did anything with the floppies.

Do driver disks qualify for media mail these days? If so it would be cheap shipping in the US.
 
I haven't seen a media mail option lately. Yes, these are disks packaged with hardware--not even write-enabled. And I'm sure I'll find more of these, not even counting the CDs...
 
I've got a Linux system with an LS120 drive here that spins at twice he speed of a regular floppy. I suppose I can just dd most of this stuff, since it's not copy protected. Folks can convert the raw images to whatever they want. On Linux, you'd mount them as a loop device.
 
@Chuck(G) I've got a WAN facing NAS here that I could set up a generic RO account to give access to users of VCF, and set anyone up for RW that needs it... Currently 1.8TB of space available.
 
It doesn't matter to me. I'll get the stuff by and by and post it on a cloud account for a couple of weeks before deleting it. Folks can copy and migrate there. Right now, I've got other fish to fry...
 
I ship floppy disks via Media Mail all the time. It's a great way to ship floppy disks. If you're willing to ship I can archive the disks and get them all up on the Internet Archive.
 
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