Re: After 20 Years, I'm This Close To Finally Escaping Data Rot -Thoughts?

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@garberstreet.com>]

"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message
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> 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.
>
> Another approach you should consider, because of its speed and
> convenience, uses no Apple-like hardware at all:
>
> http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/2503
>
> For $60 plus an old 5.25" HD drive (from an old PC, for example),
> you get a fast way to convert *the front side* of all your disks
> to images on the a PC.
>
> Converting the *back* side (if you "flipped" your disks to use
> the back side) will require a modification to the 6.25" drive...
>
> Once the images are captured on a PC, CiderPress will make short
> work of viewing and/or capturing all the text as PC .txt files.

Interesting that you didn't give him the actual vendor's web site.

http://www.deviceside.com/

Bill