15 Nov
2012
15 Nov
'12
6:24 p.m.
On Thu, 15 Nov 2012, Al Kossow wrote:
On 11/15/12 5:23 PM, mc68010 wrote:
There are some random Win9x and Mac disks, but no evidence that those
machines were in the garage that was packed up into the storage unit. We
have a few pics of what the garage looked like and the only PC I can see
was his imaging machine that had a bunch of different floppy cards in
it. Sellam gave that machine to me a couple of years ago, but the disk
was too small to have stored the collection.
It would seem odd to store that stuff on a Win9x or Mac. A machine running
MacOS X could have been a possibility, but if he wasn't a *nix guy, then
that wouldn't seem likely either.
Just a
thought, but did he use Linux or BSD? If so, maybe he
maintained his collection of files via DOSEMU?
I think he was a bit old school for that but, who knows ;) There was a 386 with a Maxtor ESDI out there, but it
appears to have
been wiped. Like I said, I hope the relatives still have some newer
machines.
Thinking about it, I haven't tried a low-level dump of the Maxstor yet.
That would be a bit of a hassle to set up for.
Gulp. I first read "Maxtor ESDI" and then "wiped"...that sinking
feeling
is awful. If this was the main disk image storage, let's hope someone just
did a quick format.