There would be “disk not formatted” errors even though we were sure there was data on the disk. Accessing floppies was hit or miss with that operating system because XP does not support all 5.25” formats. That machine was affectionately known as “Granny” due to its lack of speed and was later replaced by another machine running Windows XP. There are about 400 of them in our collections, which also include the 3.5” diskettes, ZIP disks, CDs, DVDs, external drives, and USB flash drives.įor a while we were able to access the 5.25” floppies on an older PC running Windows 2000 not connected to the network. The 5.25” became obsolete in the early 1990s, but as you might guess, they still show up to this day at the Archives.
These documents were typically small word-processing or datasheets, as a floppy would only hold about 160 kb to 1.2 mb of data, and the PC home user was not creating and storing the gigabytes of audio, video and image files that are commonplace today.
For years office workers, college students, and others relied on saving their electronic documents to 5.25” floppy disks and then to 3.5” diskettes.
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