Found this in a closet while packing. Good reminder to have backups on multiple media since one day, your first choice may become worthless. P. S. I can’t believe I’m this old. 🥴
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I’ll reach out to a friend. Dude restores Atari ST computers (recently he restored Skinny Puppy’s ST they did their first albums on.) He might have some answers.
Oh, I think I saw an 88mb model scrolling on ebay, not sure if it worked or not. You would still have to find an ancient monolith computer that could run it and then find software too. I wonder if anyone ever set up a data recovery shop with one of everything anywhere :P
Yeah, that's about where I left off years ago. It's not worth the expense to buy everything. We had an ancient Mac running a really old filmsetter at my print shop that might have had the ability, but closed up and retired 2 years ago.
It’s ahead of schedule 🤠. I’m moving out in a few weeks so the realtor can more easily sell my old house. I’ll stay on an Air B&B until mid-April when I move in. Very excited. Thanks for asking.
I’m excited for you, Scott. Not only for the great project and getting exactly what you want, seeing it come to life, but also for the new chapter in a beautiful state ❤️
I had more of those fail than any other storage media all the way back to 5.25” floppies and 40 MB SCSI drives. Good riddance! Almost as bad as SyQuest carts.
My first computer experience was a Commodore PET with separate twin 5.25” floppy disk drives. My first digital camera experience was a Kodak which took a 3.5” floppy disk and saved 10 x 100kb photos per disk. My how we have moved on 🤣
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If anyone knows where I can get these SyQuest disks read, I'd love to know.
My business printed for a lot of snowboard brands in the 90s. A brand went under right after we received these disks.
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How’s the house coming along, Scott?