On Jan 7, 2006, at 2:09 PM, keith_w wrote:
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?
Yes.
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.
Mac OS volume formats (MFS, HFS, HFS Plus, HFS Extended) are
completely readable all the way back to the original in 1983-4 given
a compatible drive (you have to use an external floppy drive since
2001 or so). I believe Mac OS X can read Apple IIGS volumes too. Of
course, Mac OS X reads all modern file system volumes (FAT, FAT32,
UFS, NTFS, ISO9660, etc etc).
Godfrey
