Replies

I would do anything, anything! to go back in time and make copies of my old 5¹/₄" disks to modern media, especially now that we have emulators for the old computers. I'd love to show my kids and grandkids what I did when I was young so they'd know that the sky is the limit, that they can do anything with their brains if they applied themselves.

11 posted on 04/27/2023 8:15:09 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)

I would do anything, anything! to go back in time and make copies of my old 51/4” disks to modern media, especially now that we have emulators for the old computers.

I am in the same boat. I have the hardware, some of it still working but the magnetic media deteriorates to an unusable state after about 20 years in most cases.

I do have emulators for PC and android but it is not obviously the same. I am planning on putting together or purchasing one of the Commodore pi1541 floppy disk drive emulators and downloading some software from archive.org one of these days. I have a grandson who is interested.

22 posted on 04/27/2023 8:54:21 AM PDT by fireman15 (Irritating people are the grit from which we fashion our pearl. I provide the grit. You're Welcome.)