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Mar. 4th, 2008 01:48 am"Archivists sometimes “refresh” their media. Every year or two, pull out all your archived material and copy them onto fresh disks."
I've been thinking about all that software I have upstairs and if really any of it is going to work next time I pull a system out to demo it. I'm estimating I have a couple thousand floppy disks... properly archiving my whole collection (including storing the hardware properly) would probably be a full time job. It seems less purposeful to keep all that hardware around if I won't have the software to run on it (although people with more time and resources have been running online archives of vintage software for a while, which can always be downloaded and written to new disks).
I might bring one of the C64s back up for... well, I don't really know, it just seems like a good idea. I always meant to bring my Apple iTV to a macRIT meeting, but now macRIT doesn't exist anymore, and thusly the only people I knew who could similarly associate about vintage computing. But bringing the C64 up seems like a good excuse to pick up some cartridges for it. wow, there really is a lot less C64 stuff on ebay now than there was a few years ago... there's less of just about everything in terms of stuff I wanted to get but didn't have the resources for.
Long as I can still get an Apple Lisa and a NeXT cube at some point...
I've been thinking about all that software I have upstairs and if really any of it is going to work next time I pull a system out to demo it. I'm estimating I have a couple thousand floppy disks... properly archiving my whole collection (including storing the hardware properly) would probably be a full time job. It seems less purposeful to keep all that hardware around if I won't have the software to run on it (although people with more time and resources have been running online archives of vintage software for a while, which can always be downloaded and written to new disks).
I might bring one of the C64s back up for... well, I don't really know, it just seems like a good idea. I always meant to bring my Apple iTV to a macRIT meeting, but now macRIT doesn't exist anymore, and thusly the only people I knew who could similarly associate about vintage computing. But bringing the C64 up seems like a good excuse to pick up some cartridges for it. wow, there really is a lot less C64 stuff on ebay now than there was a few years ago... there's less of just about everything in terms of stuff I wanted to get but didn't have the resources for.
Long as I can still get an Apple Lisa and a NeXT cube at some point...
