On 14/04/08, Frank Strauss wrote:
Nothing that I know of can read the images that were produced by an
Apple ][ based graphics system that we used around 1980. There are
many custom graphics setups from that period whose output will be
lost unless somebody managed to convert it in time.
Even reading cp/m data disks at all is very difficult.
And we are talking about a period that is considered quite recent in
audio recording terms.
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Don Cox
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Maybe some of those images were saved on the 5 1/4" Apple 140 kb
floppy disk drive.
Fortunately I was able to transfer most of them to "modern" floppies
before the Apple gear was thrown out. But suppose you were presented
with such disks, with images (or audio) that needed to be preserved, you
would be in difficulties.
Physical data carriers are just as much a problem as data formats.
And the example is just one of hundreds of formats that were in use in
the 80s.
Audio is actually in a good position - relatively few formats were used,
compared to graphics.
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Don Cox
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