[Coco] Sigh of relief, refresh your floppies!

[Stephen H. Fischer]

Hi,

I just got done reading ~ 200 floppies using OS9 and Retrieve, only one disk
had a problem. They were written ~ 2001 when I made 3.5" copies of all the
5-1/4" disks. A very good move. Now to burn them to CD where they will be
safe.

Today I have many disks that I expect are not readable today, but I have no
desire to read those disks.

So, refresh your floppies!

Question: Do hard disks need to be low level formatted after many years.
Don't they have the same problem as floppies?

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In the spirit of "9)":

... Seriously, if you have some source code that you know could be valuable
to the community and its stuck on a hard drive in Timbuktu, get it out and
at least ship it to someone who can extract it.

Are "someone" in Zamboanga?

I discovered that they are not both in Africa as
I thought growing up listening to WGN late at night (The Torch Hour) where
"Franklyn MacCormack - Vagabond's House" was my favorite and I heard the
names of these two places first.

Franklyn MacCormack, Chicago Radio Personality
http://nwfolk.com/franklyn.html

Note: There is a Timbuktu in California, I have been there. The California's
Gold episode is about to be shown again.

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I have discovered several things I did not remember I had that might be of
interest to the group but need some work that I do not time to do.

Please respond to help if you can.

SHF