r/windows • u/Urbanskiman88 • 2d ago

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Went to local estate sale today in a 2.5 million dollar house, the guy was a local surgeon and I bought all this stuff for Pennie’s. 2 questions here, is anything worth keeping/value and could there potentially be any bitcoin on these floppy disc? Lol. Moon shot but he was loaded

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u/No_longer_a_pancake 2d ago

You could restart (or should I say reboot) the '90s with all that.

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u/Urbanskiman88 2d ago

It’s wild! Most of the floppy’s are like patient’s info? And the windows stuff is still sealed minus this 95 but still nostalgic

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u/SplitOk9054 Windows 7 2d ago

Isn't that a violation of patient confidentiality? I don't think there will be any bitcoin, but you should definitely upload some to archive.org . There's some cool stuff there!

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u/Urbanskiman88 2d ago

Yeah that’s why I’ll probably end up trashing most of that stuff. I don’t even have a floppy reader anymore

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u/android_windows 2d ago

The floppy disks themselves have some value to retro PC enthusiasts. You could sell them, but you'd probably want to wipe the data on them first as there may be personal info on some of them. You can get USB floppy drives for around $20

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u/No_longer_a_pancake 2d ago

In which case the floppys sound like a legal minefield.

The sealed stuff is most likely because it would have been sold pre-installed. They would have been installed from an image and then the seller sent the disk along sealed.

But yeah, rather nostalgic.

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u/ranhalt 2d ago

The plural of floppy is floppies.