Where should I put diskette images?
I’ve started dumping those floppies I recovered [https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/29669513] the other day that have content in them. Where do you suggest I upload the images? I was thinking of sticking them on my Github and just writing a script to list the content of each image in the README.md [http://README.md], and then those who want to make sense of what it is can have at it.
I don’t have much advice in whats best, I would guess Github indeed followed by review and uploading important things to internet archive.
But I wanted to just be thankfull, preserving old media is extremely usefull and without people like you who wanna do it. I wouldn’t have been able to play some old obscure games I remember from my youth. Or old software like goomaker 5.4 (it distorted images to make funny faces)
So good luck and thank you
You’re welcome 🙂
No games here though. It’s all drivers, business stuff and software for scopes and other measurement equipment.
Those can be even more rare than games.
As a sysadmin I had to find drivers for a scanner from epson from 1992 and if it wasnt for a internet archive floppy save. I wouldn’t have made it work. Our municipality uses some stone age things for the archives
Yeah I know, I’ve used other people’s disk dumps to save the day too. That’s kind of why I’m doing this.
I’m really amazed at how well they all read. I’ve only had one bad sector on a disk I have a duplicate of. Other than that, everything read perfectly. The oldest disk I dumped goes all the way back to 1985 and it read like a champ. The write protect sticker’s glue fared less well…
Oh well… 39 disks dumped. That’ll do for today. I didn’t even make a dent in the pile 🙂
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