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bitflipper
I still have a shoebox full of floppies with Cakewalk 1.0 projects on them. I'll bet I could still load them into SONAR. Problem is, I no longer have a floppy drive.

Floppy drives that plug into a USB port are only $10-15.  I have one and it works pretty well when I occasionally need it.  

 
I Thought those were available for the 3 ½ floppies and not the 8” variety.
 
According to the Wiki page:
 

8-inch and non-standard diskettes are rare or non-existent, and those formats must usually be handled by old equipment

 
It looks like Steve will have to go out and get his hands on some old hardware if he ever wants that 8” floppy read again.

I don't think 8" floppies have been used since the late 70's, but 5.25" floppies were what the original Cakewalk came on.

In all seriousness, I was doing NMR spectroscopy in the mid-80's on a state of the art 300 MHz machine and it used 8" floppies.
 
 

yorolpal
 Started with Voyetra.

That was my most used after I discarded a system that had a dongle.
 
I started with TT @ PA4, purchased every upgrade (sans SONAR 2 for some reason) but did not get serious with SONAR until 6/7. Up until that time I had used Voyetra and ADATs fairly satisfactorily.
 

Beagle
uh.  I feel like I'm supposed to say "OKAY!!!"
 
but I'm not sure...
 
 
Baps?  help me out here..

I think you're supposed to say OKAY but only if you name is Been.

bitflipper
I still have a shoebox full of floppies with Cakewalk 1.0 projects on them. I'll bet I could still load them into SONAR. Problem is, I no longer have a floppy drive.

I have a floppy drive on my i7 rig (as well as my quad core). I have a USB floppy drive for the laptop (if needed).

Started with CWPA 6.0, moved to 9.0, jumped to Sonar 5.0 and then Sonar 8 all on CD (it is where I sit now).
 
My CWPA manual has a code for 5.0 handwritten in it (by me) so, I am guessing that when I bought it, Cake was just transitioning to 6.0 and I may have had a 5.0 disc (but maybe not).
 
Also, hand written on the 1st page is the tech support phone number ... and to this day, I can still recall the conversations that I had with Cake's tech support.  Very specifically, a tech support person commented on how calm I was remaining and that most people in my situation (which apparently was quite common and had to do with deleted files) called to scream.
 

So I need to provide pics now?
 
Quantum just upped the game.

In all honesty, I would prefer to NOT see Steve's 8" floppy ... I'll just take his word for it.