Re: Re: Compiling Software
  By: ROB MCCART to SAM ALEXANDER on Fri Apr 07 2006 06:52 pm

 > SA>I wish I still had that old XT...  One night while in high school I guess
 >   >something shifted in my closet and it fell from the top shelf to the floo
 >   >and never booted again.  I still have MANY of my old floppies, and on my
 >   >current board I'm planning on incorporating may of the graphics I created
 >   >back then.  That'll be weird, using graphics I created in like 1991.
 > 
 > You may find if they've just been on old floppies all that time
 > a lot of them are cooked.. I decided to back up about 1000 old
 > floppies to CD a couple of years ago and there was a pretty big
 > failure rate. I think about 15%, although mine were a little older
 > than 1991.. My IBM type stuff was from about 1985..
 > 

I do still have all the old floppies, but about 4-5 years ago I went 
through every one and the ones that still worked I copied the contents to 
my PC with all the floppies going back in the closet.  Some of the disks 
were hosed, but most still worked.  

I even used a dos-based app to read the TRS-80 5.25" floppies I had laying 
around, and WHOA you talkin' about some neat stuff!  This was stuff from 
Middle School :)  But my TRS-80 still boots and works just fine, or it did 
about 3-4 years ago when I pulled it out, and many of these floppies are 
going on 20 years old since  bought the Coco second hand.

Sam


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