Got an Amiga with 7,500 Disks that im archiving

[c64man]

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

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Whoa!  330 lbs. of disks?!  :banana::banana:

[lionstorm]

interesting, maybe you find some rare demos or gems !
good luck for archiving those 7,500 disks.

[som99]

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]

[midway]

cool! dms or adf?

[c64man]

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

[Jose]

Awesome! Let us know what rare stuff you find..

[Rob]

Sound like you could do with this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5lkxSY7QsI

[Domi73]

Awesome project!

[danbeaver]

Kind of expect about one fourth to be unreadable/unusable.  That is the average for my disks from the 1980's.

[c64man]

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

[FreakyDan]

Awesome, Would love to get my hands on this collection when it's done and go trough the disks.

[c64man]

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

[orange]

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.

[som99]

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