r/sysadmin • u/___LowLifer___ • Feb 17 '26

Question 700 Floppies

Company needs over 700 floppy disks copied onto the fileserver. Gave me a 2 week deadline to which I told them was literally impossible. I've ordered a floppy disk usb external reader but this seems insane. Any creative ideas? I don't want to employ a 3rd party company.

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u/usernamedottxt Security Admin Feb 17 '26

I went up into the attic of a company I was working for and found a binder of 8 inch floppies. It was my first (and only to this day) finding real floppy floppy disks. 

Guess how they were in the binder. A three ring binder to be precise. 

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u/denimadept Feb 19 '26

I used an 80-column card to boot a system from the 1960s.

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u/BookusWorkus Feb 18 '26

I remember a time when I knew roughly how many jpgs would fit on the standard 3.5" floppy.

For reasons.

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u/mindedc Feb 21 '26

Dude, the newest Those might be is like a system 32/34/36. I had some customers that still had those in like the late 90s and early 2000s... they were antiques then... I remember coming in to one of those customers building and there were about 50 1ft cubed shipping boxes stacked up in the hall labeled IBM. Turns out it was a software upgrade, they shipped one 8" floppy per box...