[Klug-general] Any help....

[David Halliday]

I don't have one, I might know someone who does.

Are you sure that the disks still contain usable data? In many cases a disk
that old will have degraded.Something discussed here:
http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Paw-Prints-Writings-of-the-maddog/Document-Freedom-Day-March-31st-2010

<http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Paw-Prints-Writings-of-the-maddog/Document-Freedom-Day-March-31st-2010>And
on a similar BBC article some weeks later (I think I might have mentioned
it).

My (as usual round about) point being that unless you have used these disks
recently/are sure that they have been stored well. There is a good chance
that you might not be able to get much data from them nearly 30 years later.

On a related note, if these applications were written in 1984, can we have a
quick poll of how old everyone on the list was in 1984? I'd go first but it
might make me unpopular.

On 26 August 2010 16:30, Adam Buckland <Adam.Buckland at eurohill.com> wrote:

> Does anyone have a system connected to a 5 ¼”  floppy drive that I could
> read some 1.2m & 360K MS-DOS disks and then copy to a more modern media?
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> I desperately need to get some programs written in approx 1984 into the new
> world…
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> And yes some of the programs were from V7 Unix  / Minix v1 so there is a
> tenuous Linux connection
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> Adam.
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