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Title: Got an Amiga with 7,500 Disks that im archiving
Post by: c64man on August 01, 2014, 06:40:27 PM: Back in may I picked up an Amiga 2000, my first one. The former owner ran the Up yours BBS in Kalamazoo Michigan. He had 7,500 disks with it. All kinds of software and demos. Im currently archiving everything. May take me a while but itll get done. Im going to share the archive with everyone once its done

Heres the Project
Amiga Digital Archeology

And the page about it

http://slandon110.wordpress.com/

Hope you all enjoy
Title: Re: Got an Amiga with 7,500 Disks that im archiving
Post by: Oldsmobile_Mike on August 01, 2014, 07:28:05 PM: Whoa! 330 lbs. of disks?! :banana::banana:
Title: Re: Got an Amiga with 7,500 Disks that im archiving
Post by: lionstorm on August 01, 2014, 07:28:13 PM: interesting, maybe you find some rare demos or gems !
good luck for archiving those 7,500 disks.
Title: Re: Got an Amiga with 7,500 Disks that im archiving
Post by: som99 on August 01, 2014, 10:20:24 PM: Great, Love things like this, thanks for sharing when done! Really would like to see what you find there!

Gets me thinking of this Amiga floppy autoloader video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5lkxSY7QsI
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5lkxSY7QsI[/youtube]
Title: Re: Got an Amiga with 7,500 Disks that im archiving
Post by: midway on August 02, 2014, 04:18:45 AM: cool! dms or adf?
Title: Re: Got an Amiga with 7,500 Disks that im archiving
Post by: c64man on August 02, 2014, 04:14:17 PM: They are being archived into ADF on the Amiga using icycools Disk Ripper. Then I transfer them to the mac via zip drive for organization and upload :)
Title: Re: Got an Amiga with 7,500 Disks that im archiving
Post by: Jose on August 02, 2014, 05:34:55 PM: Awesome! Let us know what rare stuff you find..
Title: Re: Got an Amiga with 7,500 Disks that im archiving
Post by: Rob on August 02, 2014, 05:37:38 PM: Sound like you could do with this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5lkxSY7QsI
Title: Re: Got an Amiga with 7,500 Disks that im archiving
Post by: Domi73 on August 02, 2014, 08:19:40 PM: Awesome project!
Title: Re: Got an Amiga with 7,500 Disks that im archiving
Post by: danbeaver on August 03, 2014, 07:43:23 PM: Kind of expect about one fourth to be unreadable/unusable. That is the average for my disks from the 1980's.
Title: Re: Got an Amiga with 7,500 Disks that im archiving
Post by: c64man on August 03, 2014, 10:26:49 PM: Quote from: danbeaver;770188
Kind of expect about one fourth to be unreadable/unusable. That is the average for my disks from the 1980's.

These were stored in a climate controlled finished basement for years. So far no bad disks
Title: Re: Got an Amiga with 7,500 Disks that im archiving
Post by: FreakyDan on August 03, 2014, 11:51:44 PM: Awesome, Would love to get my hands on this collection when it's done and go trough the disks.
Title: Re: Got an Amiga with 7,500 Disks that im archiving
Post by: c64man on August 04, 2014, 12:19:19 AM: Once its archived the plan is to get them hosted somewhere. The disks, Id like to sell off in lots of 25, 50 and 100. Once they are archived they are taking up space
Title: Re: Got an Amiga with 7,500 Disks that im archiving
Post by: orange on August 08, 2014, 11:56:31 AM: wow.

watch out for the mold: http://www.retrotechnology.com/herbs_stuff/clean_disks.html
perhaps there are some special drives similar to 'CD changers' that can speed it up.
Title: Re: Got an Amiga with 7,500 Disks that im archiving
Post by: som99 on August 08, 2014, 12:29:34 PM: Quote from: c64man;770224
Once its archived the plan is to get them hosted somewhere. The disks, Id like to sell off in lots of 25, 50 and 100. Once they are archived they are taking up space

I would buy fully working disks, when I went trough over 1000 floppies som years ago something like 40% was damaged :/

Hit me with a PM if you need hosting, I got gigabit fiber at my dissposal and servers with loads of resources free :)

May I ask what country do you live in?

//som99
Title: Re: Got an Amiga with 7,500 Disks that im archiving
Post by: c64man on August 31, 2014, 01:08:46 AM: Quote from: som99;770596
I would buy fully working disks, when I went trough over 1000 floppies som years ago something like 40% was damaged :/

Hit me with a PM if you need hosting, I got gigabit fiber at my dissposal and servers with loads of resources free :)

May I ask what country do you live in?

//som99

Im in the USA, sorry its been so long getting back to you guys. Been archiving the disks. Im at about 5000 disks in with about 2500 more to go :), Trying to hunt up an A1200 so I can pass the torch of the project onto a good friend who loves preserving entire machines :)
Title: Re: Got an Amiga with 7,500 Disks that im archiving
Post by: DutchinUSA on October 24, 2014, 12:30:03 PM: How's the archiving going? Are the disks hosted anywhere?

Oh wait, I found http://slandon110.wordpress.com/2014/09/07/passing-the-torch-of-the-digital-archival-project/

It's out of your hands then I guess.
Title: Re: Got an Amiga with 7,500 Disks that im archiving
Post by: motrucker on October 24, 2014, 07:50:12 PM: So, this means you aren't going to make any of the disks available, except to some one who buys the A2000 and t he Disks? Hmm......