Somewhere in storage I have a couple boxes of 8" floppies. This includes a compiler :) No, I don't have the correspondng machine :( Jeremy On Wednesday 30 July 2008 8:56:49 am J Cruit wrote: > You know I just found a box of good old five and a quarters (remember > the old whole punch read/write trick?) and if someone does have access > to a drive perhaps I could borrow it to try to transfer data? Or > maybe at the next meeting we could work up a transfer station :) > > --j > > On 7/30/08, Smith, Craig A <Craig.A.Smith at honeywell.com> wrote: > > >I wasn't the original poster on this one, but... > > >I'm surprised to hear that these disks are expected to fail at this > > > point. I guess it has been 20 years since I looked at some of my old > > > disks but I was thinking I could copy some of the files off of them, > > > copy them to my HDD and toss the disks in the trash > > > > I believe storage is the key. The magnetic domains should be good to the > > Curie point (768°C for iron) but hot, humid conditions affects the > > support medium, turning it into a gooey mess. I recall a spot on NPR > > about a steam pipe breaking at the Smithsonian and the resulting loss of > > irreplaceable jazz recordings. I have cassette tapes that are over 20 > > years old and still play. Of course analog recordings may degrade more > > gracefully than digital. > > > > If the original poster can find a 5.25" floppy drive, I would be > > interested to know if the data transfer is successful. > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list