Re: A man after my own heart.

[datajerk <datajerk@gmail.com>]

On Jul 14, 3:04 pm, "Bill W." <billspam...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't know... I'm consistently amazed about how well most of my
> floppy disks still work.  While rummaging around in my parents'
> storage recently, looking for parts of our original Apple II, I found
> a box of ~60 floppies dated 1979-1982.  All but two of them read
> without errors.
>
> But the first thing I did was image them (or in the case of the 13
> sector disks, at least make copies onto "fresh" disks).
>
> Under good storage conditions, floppies may last a lot longer than
> anyone expected.

I rescued all my high school II+ floppies ('83-'85) almost two years
ago.  More recently I rescued my 400K Mac floppies ('87?).

To read my Apple floppies I purchased a used //c and use ADTPro.  The
Mac floppies were a bit harder.  I got a used SE FDHD for $50 from my
local classifieds and was able to read the disks.  To transfer to my
modern-day Mac I had to format 1.44 MB disks in the SE and use MeatNet
to transfer to a USB floppy drive.  Fortunately Snow Leopard can still
read System 6 disks.  After an afternoon of stuffits and xfers I had
all my old Mac disks up and running in Mini vMac.

Every disk was readable.

Happy Ending.