4/1/2023 0 Comments Quick disk emulatorYep, my dad now has COPD, but he was also a smoker for a few years, we keep the windows and doors shut now, and use large air filters, but only started doing that in the late 1990s early 2000s after we got an AC unit and could cool the house without the windows open, I grew up with out AC in the 1980s and 1990s, something I have noticed with dust in my computers is that with the side off the computer you tend to get less dust in the computer, and that I have to blow the computers out with compressed air about every 6 months even with the house air filters running 24/7, also the 486 desktop that I had in the mid-1990s needed hardly any cleaning, but over time computers used more fans for cooling and needed to be cleaned more, more fans = more dust. One was diagnosed with COPD and never even smoked. I know a few people that lived near a quarry for most of their life, and they have terrible lung issues. Fugitive dust and silicates are no joke in your lungs. I think I would be moving or sealing up the house better at least. I still have a buttload of NIB floppy disks, both 3.5" and 5.25", but I already have disks written with the software I would normally use them for, and thus don't really need to use new disks for anything. I have no reason not to go with Gotek going forward, since the price of internal 3.5" floppy drives has skyrocketed up from the usual $8-$10 for NIB drives, to well over $50. At least I still have a DVD burner in it, which is funny, because I had to use it to burn a Windows 10 DVD because Windows 7 was having a massive stroke on day 1, trying to operate with my new processor and display hardware. My main desktop has no legacy ports or connectors, barring a PS/2 port and the option to add a serial port. I've got a USB 3.5" drive I use when needed, like when I need to make a disk for an old system in a hurry. My Core 2 Quad system running Windows 7 has both 3.5" and 5.25" drives, though lamentably, I must alternate between them via BIOS, as the system only supports a single drive of any format and configuration at a time. It's a personal law for me that every motherboard with a floppy connector has to have at least one floppy drive, otherwise it's not being properly utilized. I have upgraded a few computer BIOSs with a boot CD, it's not has simple has a floppy but it does work, and what I have started doing on all my older computers and laptops is use SD cards in place of hard drives and that makes it easier to transfer files over, I also make use of a "SD to SD Card Extension Cable" when ever I can to allow easy access to the SD card, or a 3D printed drive bay housing for the SD to IDE adapter that allows easy access to the SD card. I have lived were I do now for over 30 years, and unfortunately I live down a dusty gravel road that has a fair amount of traffic on it, floppies don't live very long were I live, the very fine silt like dust gets into them and causes scratches and that kills the floppies, I "might" get 5 or 10 uses out of a floppy before it's dead, I had to resort to storing floppies in zip-lock bags and blowing out the floppy drive before every use, I also had to remove the carpet in the house and found almost an inch of silt/sand under the carpet, it was nasty, and yes we have, and used, a vacuum cleaner but that did not help, even now with no carpet and air filters in every room there is still a lot of dust, I got a CD burner in the late 1990s and never looked back.
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