Re: Re: Classic Computers   
     By: Kent Timm to Damon A. Getsman on Wed Jul 23 2014 01:19:00   
      
    > If you used good sisk and stored them right there's a good chance they'll   
    > still work.  I bought my Atari 600XL amd a XF551 drive a couple months ago a   
    > found some of my old floppies and all the good brand name ones worked like I   
    > wrote them last week.   The off brand stuff had issues..  Use to be a store   
    > called "Steals" and they sold floppies under the store name, and those didn'   
    > fair as well.  Steals was like what Staples is today, they sold OK name bran   
    > stuff, as well as low end stuff under the store name.   
      
   	Well, AFAIK, everything was wrapped in plastic.  It wasn't loaded    
   with dessicant, unfortunately, though.  The pseudo-basement that these    
   pieces of equipment were stored in actually flooded a few years back, too.     
   It was in those shitty conditions long enough that the house above this    
   unfinished basement, without a direct walkway/stairway to the upper house    
   (only ducts from the furnace and pipeways), started to fill with    
   fruitflies.  They had no idea, when the exterminator got there, where they    
   were coming from and then they found standing water in the basement that'd    
   been there for a long time, and out came the Pharoh's plague when they    
   opened that door.  It'd been that way for some time.   
   	So, yeah, hopefully those machines were as much of a beast as I'm    
   thinking, and the epoxy of the boards was good enough to keep the    
   components from degrading and/or corroding.  I'm not going to keep my    
   fingers crossed, though.  :|  Plus, my mom, who owns that place, is prone    
   to selling off my shit and keeping the money.  She's stolen well into the    
   mid 5-digits or more from me in her time, especially when she jacked my    
   personally marked inheritance from my father.   
   	Gotta love family, right?  It was actually when I still had an    
   8-bit atari as my only access when I think I first said that some good    
   silicon and hard drives were better than family at times.  I was 16, but I    
   sure as hell meant it.  Still seems true, at least with my adoptive    
   family, today.   
   	This has been an undercaffinated and highly unfocused, off-topic    
   digression that had no purpose.  Thank you for playing along.  Feel free    
   to snip & just respond to the on-topic shit.  Heh.   
      
      
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