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I have a box of 3.25" disks from my BBS days. I need to take a look at those and see if I can get any text files from them.

This archive is an amazing glimpse at my youth.

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> If you've got some old disks that have files you never did anything with, please consider sending them or a copy of them to me. That stuff is precious; and it is rare; and it is finite. That's what matters.

I'd suggest emailing him at jason@textfiles.com . He has the equipment to transfer most types of disk, and can also guide you through the process if you don't want to send the disks away.

It's also important to do this because old disks tend to lose their data over time. To the point where folks will take raw magnetic flux images from old media, just to have a higher chance of getting some data back.

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