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[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

I discovered on Saturday that the garage in my current flat is not as
water tight as I thought it was.

Most of my Apple II reference books are now unusable (mouldy and wet),
along with quite a lot of other stuff. I spent most of Sunday moving
boxes and repacking what I could save, but I have a fair amount more to
sort through so don't know the full extent of the damage yet.

I expect most of the books are already available via scans online, but
I'll make a list of the damaged titles in case any of them are rare and
worth doing an attempted salvage, before throwing them all out.

Included in the damaged books are the manuals for the Byte Works
products I bought (pretty much everything they released for the IIgs),
most of the Apple IIgs reference library (except for a couple I'd taken
out due to referring to them semi-recently), lots of Apple
][/][+/IIe/IIc refererence material, and all my Nibble and A+ magazines
plus some inherited from other people.

I don't even want to think about the floppy disks. Lots of them are
ruined and many more may be difficult to use due to getting moisture in
their lining.

The old computers mostly fared better because they were up one layer
from the ground, but there were some things like 3.5" drives that will
have got wet on one side and may have suffered as a result.

-- 
David Empson
dempson@actrix.gen.nz