Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
I moved my entire archives that go back to 1983, stored on 400-500 3.5"
floppies, to a single CD almost a decade ago....
Impressive.
Of what did/does it comprise?
All manner of text and other files, such as images, spreadsheets, etc.,
all thrown together?
And once moved to the CD, all are readable?
Pretty awesome, when you think about it.
Especially since a lot of the types of files one saves don't have a
proper file reader available today.
I used to have a lot of files saved from working with them on my Apple
IIGS. Not readable as of several years ago. I threw away the floppies.
I suppose I'll hear that "so and so" can read IIGS files, after the
fact, but there you are.
Frequently it's not necessarily the file structure that prohibits
reading the file, but a machine that will read, for instance, Apple IIGS
hi-density disks!
Or single sided disks, or others of the time.
Compatible media becomes as or more important in the retrieval stratagem
than the file structure...
So it seems.
keith
Just checked the CD. 100% readable. Of course, I made another backup in
the course of checking it... ;-)
Godfrey
