Converting all my Amiga Disks.. 5000 of them

[crustyasp46]

The time has come to finally get rid of all my 3.5"DD floppy disks.. they are taking up valuable cupboard space that I need back for shinier and more recent items. I know that some of them have data on that I'd like to keep, source I wrote back in the late 80's / early 90's.. midi files, soundtracker / octamed tunes.. The problem is figuring out which disks..

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You see since I stopped using the Amiga regularly (this sounds like a meeting of Amiga Anonymous, of which I'm sure there'd be many many members ;p).. I've "looked after" the disks by storing them in some large wooden crates, I've got 6 of these crates, each holding around 500 disks, plus a couple of large shoe boxes, and an old 80 capacity smoked plastic lid box, each crammed as full as can be.. all in all there's somewhere around 5000 disks.. That's rather a lot to go through.. especially when you didn't label many of them appropriately..

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Around 3 years ago, I tried reading the disks manually.. I made it through a hundred or so, before I realised my brain had gone numb, and I was at risk of chewing my tongue off and needing replacement eyeballs. In short, it was one of those tedious repetitive tasks that everyone really enjoys ;p

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5lkxSY7QsI&feature=player_embedded
If someone wishes to upload the video, it would be appreciated.

[url][/url]Here ya go Crusty.

Full article here: http://dwellertech.blogspot.ca/2012/02/converting-all-my-amiga-disks.html

[Hot Trout]

Great post and a great story. I have as many disks for my Amiga and would either need a lend of this or to make my own some day. The task of storing them all has put me off for too many years.

Excellent