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Here’s my little Linux celebration story...

I was searching for something out in the shop and stumbled uppon two huge boxes of 3 1/4” floppy disks. I thought I had jettisoned those years ago!

I intended to toss them out with the trash but needed to check them first for stray bits of personal data. But how would I access them - none of my computers sports a floppy drive!

Then I remembered a Samsung USB external drive that I used to use when I was working. I plugged it in and it made the familiar chunka-chunka sounds but Windows threw an error about drivers. I tried to do a driver update but Win 10 wanted to update all my software (and I wasn’t interested in that). So I searched the web for drivers and came up empty handed.

Then I remembered the Linux Mint laptop I had been testing. I booted it and plugged in the drive. I sorted itself in very short order and presented me with an icon showing the correct model. I was able to sort through the hundreds of disks and even discovered a couple of disks that had personal stuff on them. Most of the disks were packaged software from Microsoft (when I worked there in the 90’s)

Anybody need a copy of Windows NT Server 3.51? Still in shrink-wrap!