Don Maslin collection status

On 11/15/12 8:54 PM, Fred Cisin wrote: I retrieved a Ford Explorer's worth of media. Well over 1000 floppies. What I did was went through as much as I could do before literally getting heat exhaustion in a totally packed 10x10 storage unit, pulling out any box that looked like it contained media. The recovery rate has been OK so far, but there's no way I have time to do it all. Much of it is unlabeled, or are applications (lots, and lots of copies of DBASE, Wordstar, etc. etc.). From looking at the pictures, it was just whatever was in the garage. The disks from me were still in the boxes that they went down there in. They certainly weren't in filing cabinets.. I can sort of figure out what was done later. He had dot-matrix printed labels on those (some of which you can see in the label jpgs I've been putting with the .img files on bitsavers) so I've been trying to match those up with the contents of the .txt file What I've done sort of matches. Someone else from CHM is going to be down there on other business for the next couple of weeks, so this is probably the last gasp of our involvement with any recovery.