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Massive disk archiving project - Need HELP! (Cincy, OH)
« on: June 23, 2010, 02:06:22 PM »
I recently saw a posting on Craigslist for someone selling a bunch of Commodore and Amiga hardware and software. The guy wanted to sell all the Commodore stuff together in one lot and all the Amiga stuff together in another, so I couldn't pick and choose what I wanted from the Amiga stuff - had to take it all.


Welllll....Once I showed up and saw how much software there was I about passed out.

I picked up 6 very large pull out drawers full of disks and about 10 or so of the smaller double row disk boxs. The kind that holds like 80 or 100 disks.


I think all together I picked up around 2500 disks and I don't know what to do with all of them. I have been thinking that perhaps they all need to be archived. I know a lot of the stuff is probably already available online, but who knows how much isn't. This guy had mountains and mountains of copied/cracked software and there is a decent chance a lot of it could be NTSC stuff that you don't see very often.



I am looking for advice on where to even begin with a project like this.

The picture below is just one of six of the large pull out drawers full of games/apps. The drawer isn't even pulled all the way out - at least another inch or two it could come out. I estimate each one holds somewhere around 320 to 350 disks. Plus I have all the smaller disk boxes.
 

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Re: Massive disk archiving project - Need HELP! (Cincy, OH)
« Reply #1 on: June 23, 2010, 03:29:02 PM »
lol I think my poor 1200 would catch on fire trying that. Or at least burn up a couple floppy drives.

Never thought of doing 4 at a time. Does that really work?
 

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Re: Massive disk archiving project - Need HELP! (Cincy, OH)
« Reply #2 on: June 23, 2010, 03:56:53 PM »
Quote from: Daedalus;566734

Edit: Of course, it will depend on the ADF-making software supporting such an operation... I've never tried making an ADF from anything other than DF0:


See thats kinda what I was wondering. What software would support dumping multiple floppies at the same time to adf.