Dear WW: the maelstrom is not something WhirlingWinds do not create. Here is a URL about it. Not very long.


http://www.ub.uit.no/northernlights/eng/maelstrom.htm

Commiseration on computer collapse. But backing stuff up on floppies is I think obsolete. If I had much stuff I wanted to back up, I would get something that could hold a hundred megabytes. Can't even remember name of thing.Here is a mile long URL about the gadgets:
httphttp://windows.berkeley.edu/hardware/pcstorage.html://windows.berkeley.edu/hardware/pcstorage.html