From: katzy@noname.at.all   
      
   Hello.   
      
   Walt Fles wrote in message ...   
   >I ran across some OLD (possibly 25-30 years old) floppy disks and I am   
   wondering how can I verify IF they are any good, on a modern pc?   
   >   
   >They are the 5-1/4" disks - do they even make drives for these anymore?   
      
      
   There is this program READDISK written by Matthew Reed for DOS/Windows which   
   should be able to do it. You do need a 5 1/4 drive though, not USB!   
      
   From the readme:   
   READDISK is a utility program for PC compatibles that reads real TRS-80 disks   
   and converts them into virtual disk files.  Obviously, READDISK requires that   
   your PC have the right sized disk drive; in other words, if you want to   
   convert 5 1/4" TRS-80 disks, your PC must have a 5 1/4" drive installed!   
      
   However it says too:   
   READDISK cannot transfer single-density disks on most computers (because most   
   PC disk controllers do not support single density operation).   
      
   So a matter of just trying... ;)   
      
   Katzy   
      
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