AKiCiF: Tech help
Monday, October 31st, 2011 05:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rolanniO, Internets, I have a disk.
It is an old disk, designed to be read by one of those ancient, how-do-you-say, DeeOeS computers. It is, this disk, of the 3.5 inch persuasion.
The label on the disk is: Medias Res Chapters 1-44 DOS
I strongly suspect that the files on this disk were written in WordStar. For DOS. Just to be clear.
Is there any way, O, Internets, to recover these files?
Is there any affordable way to recover these files?
Why do I ask?
I'll tell you.
Once upon a time there was a book being written about two characters named Val Con and Miri, and that book was called Medias Res, because we couldn't think of a title. Sort of like George. That book eventually became better-known, if not notorious, as Carpe Diem.
But! There was also another book, about these two people, Miri and Val Con, also entitled Medias Res, for exactly the reason elucidated above -- and it was abandoned.
It is possible, but not certain, that the files on this so-ancient disk, are the abandoned book.
It is equally possible that the files belong to the book which later became Carpe Diem.
It is also possible, in fact, likely, that the media has degraded past the point of usefulness. These files -- for either book -- would have been created in...1987/1988.
Thank you, O, Internets, for the gift of your expertise.
It is an old disk, designed to be read by one of those ancient, how-do-you-say, DeeOeS computers. It is, this disk, of the 3.5 inch persuasion.
The label on the disk is: Medias Res Chapters 1-44 DOS
I strongly suspect that the files on this disk were written in WordStar. For DOS. Just to be clear.
Is there any way, O, Internets, to recover these files?
Is there any affordable way to recover these files?
Why do I ask?
I'll tell you.
Once upon a time there was a book being written about two characters named Val Con and Miri, and that book was called Medias Res, because we couldn't think of a title. Sort of like George. That book eventually became better-known, if not notorious, as Carpe Diem.
But! There was also another book, about these two people, Miri and Val Con, also entitled Medias Res, for exactly the reason elucidated above -- and it was abandoned.
It is possible, but not certain, that the files on this so-ancient disk, are the abandoned book.
It is equally possible that the files belong to the book which later became Carpe Diem.
It is also possible, in fact, likely, that the media has degraded past the point of usefulness. These files -- for either book -- would have been created in...1987/1988.
Thank you, O, Internets, for the gift of your expertise.
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Date: 2011-10-31 10:08 pm (UTC)All that aside it's possible that the drive will have trouble reading the floppy disk in question but most of the time that's not an issue even when the disks are old.