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On Sun, 23 Jun 2019, Larry McVoy wrote:

> I'd look around for an external floppy drive, plug it into a modern machine,
> download knoppix, boot that and it will read the disk.

I dunno about you but I have had horrible luck with USB drives...to be 
fair, only one of them.

-uso.