Sorta random post
"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...