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Magazine Cover Disks Images

Postby te_lanus » Sun Jul 08, 2012 7:54 pm

Just a crazy thought I had.

Do people still have the Floppy disks that came with the PC Magazines from the 1990's? I found 2 that I had but they are way beyond good. :cry:

I know there is a preservation effort for most systems, but it seems the IBM PC is loosing out.

My question is:
1) do anyone know if there is a site that have these disks archived.
2) do anyone here have some of them and is willing to image them, and allow us to host it.

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Re: Magazine Cover Disks Images

Postby crustyasp46 » Mon Jul 09, 2012 1:54 am

i don't rememer ny IBM specific specific archives I have run across, However I will check when I get back home in about a month, if you have not found anything by then. I don't know if there will be any internet for me while I am away. :cheers:
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Re: Magazine Cover Disks Images

Postby Hot Trout » Mon Jul 09, 2012 10:29 am

I already have some collections of magazines with the disks still intact. I also think I can get some mag disk collections from friends. Question is do we put the magazine disks in the new upcoming mags section or into the roms section. I am thinking the magazine section would be a good location to store this.

Good idea te_lanus.
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Re: Magazine Cover Disks Images

Postby te_lanus » Mon Jul 09, 2012 4:47 pm

Hot Trout wrote:I already have some collections of magazines with the disks still intact. I also think I can get some mag disk collections from friends
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Question is do we put the magazine disks in the new upcoming mags section or into the roms section. I am thinking the magazine section would be a good location to store this.


Hi HT

I would think that it would work in the Mag section. Would be great, I think, if they can be kept in the same format that they came in.

For those that want to help:
Floppies could be imaged with either rawrite for windows or Winimage (if based on a Windows machine)
or use this for dos
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