19 Oct
2025
19 Oct
'25
6:17 p.m.
It’s more about being able to read and understand the contents of the disk. The first line
saying they will only use floppies with a Shucart interface shows the (low) level of
knowledge of floppy drives and disks. That like saying they will only translate disk with
labels written with a pencil. They are gonna miss a lot of stuff. I just hope they don’t
throw away any disks they think are bad.
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On Oct 19, 2025, at 16:11, Jim Davis <jim.p.davis(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Floppies are like any rare book, It's not the book, it's the contents. (angry)
On Sun, Oct 19, 2025 at 4:08 PM Wayne S via cctalk
<cctalk@classiccmp.org<mailto:cctalk@classiccmp.org>> wrote:
Reading their home page, they really don’t have a clue!
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On Oct 19, 2025, at 15:53, Warner Losh via cctalk
<cctalk@classiccmp.org<mailto:cctalk@classiccmp.org>> wrote:
On Sun, Oct 19, 2025, 4:37 PM Fred Cisin via cctalk
<cctalk@classiccmp.org<mailto:cctalk@classiccmp.org>>
wrote:
I feel I've not over done it with 300 floppies
Warner
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https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/future-nostalgia
> "There are over 150 floppies present in our collections,"
> That does NOT seem to me to be a large collection at all.
On Sun, 19 Oct 2025, Doc Shipley via cctalk
wrote:
Say what????
I can SEE "over 150 floppies" from where I sit.
Yes, I do need to sort & clear my bench...
To be able to see the thousands more.