I find it a little miracle that the majority of such old posts are still available. I myself have a stack of "old" (= about 5 to 6 years) ATARI-ST floppy disks which I cannot read anymore for (1) lack of an ATARI-ST and (b) lack of a floppy disk drive on present-day computers.

I personally believe that I have some floppy disks myself, dating back to my first MS-DOS times, and I have a floppy disk drive on my "main" pc, which incidentally is far from being the "main" one as of late. At one time I made a backup for historic reasons (I doubt I will really look at that stuff again) by copying their contents on a CD. Later on I realized that the Right™ way to do that would have been to fire up Linux and take an image of the disks by dd'ing the device. In some sense one day I think I'll do that, in fact I've been thinking of doing it for years now. Will they still be intact in this moment? ;)

In reply to Re^2: Hard-reaped nodes? by blazar
in thread Hard-reaped nodes? by blazar

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