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1. meerita · 1790112479 · focus · HN ↗

   My father built several projects in FoxPro. I was too young in the ’90s to remember much of it, but I’m sure he’ll be super happy to check this out. The kicker is that we’ll probably need to buy a floppy disk drive and dust off some old boxes to find them.

   1. outworlder · 1790118433 · focus · HN ↗

      They are unlikely to still work.

      If they do, immediately copy the data over. They tend to crumble and fall apart (and contaminate the drive head, which will need cleaning)

      1. kristianp · 1790143523 · focus · HN ↗

         Not to mention that USB drives tend to ignore read only tab and Windows writes the "System Volume Information" folder to the drive.

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