Re: Group purchase of Lisa, Lisa 2, Apple II, Apple III, Early Mac Software CD?

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

"Tim Haynes" <timhaynes@alumni.no.spam.please.uwaterloo.ca> wrote in message
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: "Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message
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: > Tim Haynes wrote:
: >
: > > Once upon a time, I bought a copy of Apple's "Technical Information
: Source
: > > CD" from eBay.  It had a pile disk images of of Lisa, Apple II, Apple
: III,
: > > and early Macintosh software on it, plus tools to create floppies of
: those
: > > disk images.
: > >
: > > My CD went bad (grr...should have backed it up) and I'm dying to get my
: > > hands on a new copy.
: >
: > On a tangential subject, how did your CD go bad?  These were "pressed"
: > CDs, right?--not CD-Rs.  These are supposedly safe for many decades...
: >
: > I'm interested in any evidence related to the "archival" life of optical
: > storage media.
:
: Well, I was pretty disappointed with this particular eBay purchase.  The
: lady was selling copies, but didn't advertise the fact that they were
: copies.  I (mistakenly) assumed that she used decent media (she had a
: printed a CD label sticker which covered the top surface of the disc, so I
: couldn't tell the brand).  Went to use the CD a few months ago, and all I
: could get was a directory listing - couldn't actually read any files any
: more.

First off, you should report her for violation of eBay rules.
Secondly, you should contact her and let her know that she is
selling defective goods.

: It wasn't mishandled or anything - just went bad.  Odd that I could get a
: directory listing, but nothing else.

That IS very odd, indeed. Have you tried making a global
image of the CD and burning it back onto better media???

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