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Re: After 20 Years, I'm This Close To Finally Escaping Data Rot -Thoughts?
Dave Rawson wrote:
D Finnigan wrote:
I bought my first Super Serial Card from DigitalDinos.
http://digitaldinos.com/DigitalDinos/Pages/ForSale/AppleII/docAppleII.htm
Great pricing, and I highly recommend that site!
They're currently out right now. I'll keep an eye peeled.
Thanks to everyone for their encouragement and suggestions.
Hopefully within a couple of weeks the purchase will show up and I'll
try and keep folks (if interested) posted on how I do with recovering
files from 20 year-old floppies.
Please do!
Assuming I have some measure of success getting the disks transfered
over, then what?
If recovery of the text is most important, and there isn't much fancy
formatting or it doesn't matter as much, then you can easily extract
the text from the disk images using CiderPress, for example.
Once the data is in PC .txt files, any PC word processor can massage
them into the desired format--using "find/replace" on formatting
character sequences, for example.
I set up some sort of Apple emulator to run an AceWriter/Magic
Writer/ASCII text editor of some kind?
Is this best done under Windows (I have 32-bit XP or Vista and 64-bit
Windows) or Linux (I'm a newb) of some kind?
Windows has more good emulators than Linux, so that's a plus.
You would only need to emulate AceWriter if you wanted to use it
to "print" the files to PC text files, preserving some of the
AceWriter formatting.
Thanks again, this has been a long time coming.
Fingers crossed in The Dalles, Oregon...
I think you'll be pleasantly surprised at how smoothly it goes.
The problem will be doing *anything* 600 times, which is why I
suggested using an SSC for the fastest possible serial link!
-michael
NadaNet and AppleCrate II: parallel computing for Apple II computers!
Home page: http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon
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