>200 disks, especially if they weren't in great shape, can take some time. I assume they wanted full data recovery using all possible means, >plus conversion of all the documents to a modern format.
With one-of-a-kind stuff, you don't have the luxury of experimenting and playing around with it. You have to make sure you aren't >destroying them further while trying to read them- sometimes you only get one chance and the mylar coating comes right off. After that, it's over. Fair point. Thinking further on it, it would be a softly, softly approach. Terry (Tez) On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 10:03 AM, peter <pe...@rittwage.com> wrote: > On 2016-01-05 15:56, Terry Stewart wrote: > >> I wonder how it could take them three months to figure something out. >>> >> Maybe Chuck can comment. >> >> Yes, I would have thought an old MSDOS machine with a 360k 5.25 inch >> floppy >> drive plus Chuck's 22DISK program and the job could have been done in a >> day? Might be more too it than it seems maybe... >> >> Terry (Tez) >> > > 200 disks, especially if they weren't in great shape, can take some time. > I assume they wanted full data recovery using all possible means, plus > conversion of all the documents to a modern format. > > With one-of-a-kind stuff, you don't have the luxury of experimenting and > playing around with it. You have to make sure you aren't destroying them > further while trying to read them- sometimes you only get one chance and > the mylar coating comes right off. After that, it's over. > > -- > -- > Pete Rittwage > Disk Preservation Project > http://diskpreservation.com > >
