On 1/29/2012 16:57, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
On 29 January 2012 16:21, Mark Morgan Lloyd
<markmll.fpc-pas...@telemetry.co.uk> wrote:
My experience is that both media and drives suffer with age, even if not
being used.
I can imagine that might be for the disk, but not the drive itself. I
recently cleaned up my garage and found a crate full of old hardware
(boxes and boxes of 5.25" and 3.5" floppies, 2 5.25" floppy drives,
286 motherboard, 1x 84MB HDD, very old software and games etc...). The
floppy drives and diskettes still worked. :-)
No idea what I must do with all this old stuff though.... Does anybody
collect such stuff?
yes... some do... but many of those who do also look to see how obscure such
are... i konw of at least two folk who have garages full of old hardware going
back as far as the PDP-9 or PDP-11 devices... i even have an old System36
sitting here (holding up the other end of my main "work bench" that came with an
8inch drive which still works and appears to be properly calibrated... sadly,
though [!], i don't have the 220V connection capability to fire it up and place
a brownout on the neighborhood for the 5 minutes it takes it to come up to speed :P
@Florian
Definitely try to preserve such old software releases. If you can, you
should upload it to SourceForge.
+10000000000000000+
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