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Got an Amiga with 7,500 Disks that im archiving
« 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
 

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Re: Got an Amiga with 7,500 Disks that im archiving
« Reply #1 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 :)
 

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Re: Got an Amiga with 7,500 Disks that im archiving
« Reply #2 on: August 03, 2014, 10:26:49 PM »
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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
 

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Re: Got an Amiga with 7,500 Disks that im archiving
« Reply #3 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
 

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Re: Got an Amiga with 7,500 Disks that im archiving
« Reply #4 on: August 31, 2014, 01:08:46 AM »
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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?

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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 :)