• The sheer number of old Floppies and CDs

    From Ogg@21:4/106.21 to Charles Pierson on Saturday, September 19, 2020 09:01:00
    Hello Charles!

    ** On Saturday 19.09.20 - 05:01, Charles Pierson wrote to Adept:

    I recently had a tree limb fall during a storm and smash
    a storage shed. The sheer number of old Floppies and CDs
    I had in there that wound up lost amazed me. Especially
    considering the number of CDs and DVDs I still have in
    the house.

    This is what I did with 95% of my collection of 3.5"
    diskettes:

    http://kolico.ca/fidonet/echos/win95/#diskettes


    I think I may have a problem.

    The CD's would have survived the crash, no?

    I was poised to convert my CDs to FLAC/Apple-Lossless and
    serve them on a NAS with iTunes. But then Spotify came along
    and I convinced myself that the conversion process would
    simply take too long and require purchasing additional
    equipment.


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  • From Charles Pierson@21:4/111 to Ogg on Saturday, September 19, 2020 11:41:21


    This is what I did with 95% of my collection of 3.5"
    diskettes:

    http://kolico.ca/fidonet/echos/win95/#diskettes

    I thought about that.

    I think I may have a problem.

    The CD's would have survived the crash, no?

    No. they were crushes. large limb totally smashed the shed. All boxes and totes on there were crushes.




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