I might even have a drive here! Be nice to find it a home.
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 10:53:59AM -0700, Gustin Johnson wrote: > Nice, we just tossed our old 20 MB Bernouli SCSI disks from our old > Mac. The drive has long since died but for some reason I kept the > disks. > > On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 10:50 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > This is excellent. I have exabytes here and optical media like the Fujitsu > > 3.5" in 128-640 MB and Panasonic PD drives. This stuff should all be > > operational if anyone needs any help. I also have DLT7000. > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 09:38:06AM -0700, John Jardine wrote: > >> > My dad has a box of floppies for his Apple IIc, that has databases and > >> > word processing files. How easy is it for him to get that data on to > >> > his modern PC? > >> *cough* I may be able to help you there. > >> > >> On Thu, 2011-02-24 at 18:51 -0700, Gustin Johnson wrote: > >> > If they were well known or named formats it would not be a problem. > >> > Simon's example is excellent. There is a sea of dead and extinct > >> > formats from the late 70s through the early 90's. I use the word > >> > format loosely, as some of these systems were one offs for people like > >> > libraries, school systems, and mid to large size companies. Perhaps > >> > you are lucky in that seismic data can be read 50 years later, but > >> > this is not the norm. > >> > > >> > How many of your digital files from the 80s or 90s can still be read? > >> > My dad has a box of floppies for his Apple IIc, that has databases and > >> > word processing files. How easy is it for him to get that data on to > >> > his modern PC? I have personally used utilities like strings to get > >> > data out of old formats (assuming that I was lucky enough to have data > >> > in a format that used good ol ASCII) for files I created myself and I > >> > am only 35. Most of my early university papers are mostly unreadable > >> > in modern word processors. Ironically, the ones I did in TeX/Latex > >> > would still be readable if I had kept them. > >> > > >> > On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 6:00 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> Obsolete formats? Please advise which. > >> > > > >> > > It happens to everyone in the end... even NASA had issues reading > >> > > magnetic > >> > > tapes containing digitised high resolution images from the Lunar > >> > > Orbiter. > >> > > > >> > > That is until some determined engineers got obsessed with the project: > >> > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Orbiter_Image_Recovery_Project > >> > > > >> > > Simon > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > _______________________________________________ > >> > > clug-talk mailing list > >> > > [email protected] > >> > > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > >> > > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > >> > > **Please remove these lines when replying > >> > > > >> > > >> > _______________________________________________ > >> > clug-talk mailing list > >> > [email protected] > >> > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > >> > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > >> > **Please remove these lines when replying > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> clug-talk mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > >> Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > >> **Please remove these lines when replying > > > > _______________________________________________ > > clug-talk mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > > **Please remove these lines when replying > > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
