Re: IIe -> mac data transfer

[Quartz <quartz@sneakertech.com>]

> It is _extremely_ unlikely that more than a dozen of those disks
> contain any original writing.
>
> Apple 5.25" disks were small by today's standards, but each
> could hold at least 120KB of user data, which is about 50-60
> pages.  So ten of them is 500-600 pages of text--quite a lot of
> human output.

you're assuming here that he filed up each disk to capacity, which I 
know for a fact he did not.

> I'm sure they are labeled in a coherent way (this guy clearly
> was a dedicated user), and a little study will reveal which
> few disks are the important (to an author) ones.  The vast
> majority are probably programs and backups of programs
> and data.

'coherent' is relative term... his method of organizing things was about 
as eccentric as he was :)    besides that, I have trouble reading his 
handwriting, so some of these disk labels I'm unsure about.

FWIW, there are 11 disks I KNOW to have stuff on them, and 19 I suspect 
have stuff on them. and that's assuming he didn't write stuff on the 
B-sides of any of the program disks...

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