I have literally a thousand or so floppies (apple II, PC, some CPM). The vast majority weren't legitimate. A few years ago I went through and retrieved some of the ones with my own personal work on them. But the vast majority sit around waiting for the oxide to fall off.
I was actually thinking the other day it might be amusing to upload the text editor I wrote in applesoft basic to github.
I was lucky I guess, most of the ones I recovered worked, but the recovery process (IIGS, via appletalk to 68k mac, to pc via ethernet) is such a PITA, I quit after the first 5 or 6...
I figured that most of the games and apps were available in some of the abandonware collections that my pirated copies weren't really worth recovering.
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I have literally a thousand or so floppies (apple II, PC, some CPM). The vast majority weren't legitimate. A few years ago I went through and retrieved some of the ones with my own personal work on them. But the vast majority sit around waiting for the oxide to fall off.
I was actually thinking the other day it might be amusing to upload the text editor I wrote in applesoft basic to github.
I was lucky I guess, most of the ones I recovered worked, but the recovery process (IIGS, via appletalk to 68k mac, to pc via ethernet) is such a PITA, I quit after the first 5 or 6...
I figured that most of the games and apps were available in some of the abandonware collections that my pirated copies weren't really worth recovering.