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Re: The Saltine's Disks Archived at Mac GUI Vault

Moose wrote:

On Mar 1, 7:11 am, dog_...@macgui.com (D Finnigan) wrote:


Notorious Apple II cracker, The Saltine, perhaps best known for his
single-disk crack of Prince of Persia, has donated his disk collection, some
140 5.25" disks, to Mac GUI Vault to be archived.

Now the Apple II world has access to over 170 disk sides of his data,
including the source code, disk copiers, crack boots, 18 sector disks, and
other cracking utilities used by The Saltine back in the 1980's. All that's
missing are his hand-written notes and labels on the disks themselves. The
disk images are first being released in one large archive file, and will
later be added to the Mac GUI Vault downloads section as individual files
when the next Vault update occurs, scheduled for next week.

Download the collection:http://macgui.com/The_Saltine.tar.bz2

Visit Mac GUI Vault:http://macgui.com/vault/

About Mac GUI Vault
Mac GUI Vault opened on 09/09/09, intended as sorted, searchable,
comprehensive archive of retro Apple II and Macintosh computing material.
Mac GUI was started in February of 2004 as a themes/customization site, and
has since grown to encompass all manner of Apple computing.



Well done guys, and special thansk to The Saltine for donating these.

It's amazing that all the disks still worked after all this time.


I agree that it's a great donation, but it's not at all surprising
that all the disks still work.

Unless a disk was of very low quality at the start, or was subjected
to very punishing conditions since, 5.25" floppies should continue
to work after all these years.

I have stored a large number of disks upright for all these years and
have not yet encountered a case of data loss resulting from the passage
of time.  (I did have a few cheapo disks shed some of their oxide
coating, but they were garbage then and are still garbage now.  ;-)

-michael

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