Last night I was going through my old QL floppies trying to recover and refresh
the data. Well, you have to every 25 years or so I imagine.
Using a combination of the two floppy drives and perseverance I managed to
recover almost, but not quite, everything. The one program which really
stubbornly wanted to corrupt itself was the "Artice" drawing program from
Eidersoft. I had it on two floppies (and the Microdrive cart) and guess where
the bad blocks turned up on each of the media... Typical! :-)
I'm wondering if I'll have better luck trying to ready the floppies on a Linux
machine as the Sandy disk interface seems to give up readying on the first, or
even second attempt rather than retrying a number of times.
Still, I did have fun reading all my undergraduate and postgraduate project
reports in Quill.
Steve
P.S. It seems that the Sandy 512K expansion + disk interface overheats after a
while causing the QL to fail the memory test when reset, was this a known problem?
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