[Klug-general] Any help....

[MacGyveR]

On Thursday 26 Aug 2010, David Halliday wrote:
> 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-maddo
>g/Document-Freedom-Day-March-31st-2010
>
> <http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Paw-Prints-Writings-of-the-madd
>og/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?
> >
> >
> >
> > I desperately need to get some programs written in approx 1984 into the
> > new world…
> >
> >
> >
> > And yes some of the programs were from V7 Unix  / Minix v1 so there is a
> > tenuous Linux connection
> >
> >
> >
> > Adam.
> >
> >
> >
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Its best not to store the diskettes side by side as this makes the degrading 
much worse. I've had problems with 3 1/2 inch media from 1995.

Might be worth getting a few drives from ebay and a head cleaner if you can 
find one as the drives will be getting on a bit
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