Floppy recovery

[Terry Stewart]

>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 <peter at 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
>
>