looking to pull files from a rare version of CP/M that could write to 3-1/2 disks. On any given day, Schmidt might be working on a "college thesis that needs to be extracted from TRS-80 floppies, a famous rock band needs video footage from an obscure magneto-optical disc, or an industry luminary. "The tricky element there is converting their files to readable formats - there were a LOT of word processors in use over the years, and making them all accessible today is no mean feat." "Many of the requests are for almost-modern, one-or-two disks - people looking to rescue their resumes, college papers, or Great American Novels from disks they just don't have drives for any more," Schmidt said. Schmidt's client base is a mix of law firms, college, and libraries that can "clock in at hundreds of disks at once" to those like my Mom, who just need one or two items recovered. "Ones wanting to make those intangible memories from lost loved ones a little more real." " I thought, 'I can do that, and I bet others have that need as well.' and those remain my most valued clients," Schmidt said in an email to PCMag. This woman's brother had passed away, and she could not access some pieces he had written.
RetroFloppy's David Schmidt started his site in 2006 after a woman in an online forum requested help getting files off a Commodore 128. In Mom's case, we shipped her two, 5.25-inch diskettes to RetroFloppy (Opens in a new window), who put her files on a CD and emailed a digital download within a few days for about $20 total. Perhaps in the dark recesses of the PCMag Labs, we have equipment capable of performing such tasks, but I was not about to go digging.įortunately, there are services that will extract your files from old disks for a relatively affordable fee. These days, optical drives are almost a thing of the past, let alone a floppy drive, so it can be difficult to extract content from ancient disks without the right equipment. "Is it possible to find out what I had on these disks?" she asked me last month. Mom's Apple IIe disks were relegated to a box in the corner of an attic and largely forgotten, until recently. Like me, Mom is also a writer, so she spent many an hour typing (at warp speed) on the IIe's clickety-clackety keyboard as I busied myself with Crystal Barbie and her kingdom.Įventually, the Apple IIe and its green screen were traded in for a Windows-based PC and the magic of solitaire and flying toaster screensavers. In August 1984, my parents bought an Apple IIe for about $2,500, making them one of the first on the block to own a personal computer. How to Set Up Two-Factor Authentication.How to Record the Screen on Your Windows PC or Mac.
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