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This page keeps track of articles relating to working with old computers, restoring them, transferring data from them to newer systems and emulating them on modern systems.- 2009-Feb-18: A Python program for reading old Apple II DOS 3.3 disk images. [7607]
- 2009-Jan-16: A good technical article on the old Commodore 64 and the various related versions. This even mentions the reason that the serial disk IO was done in software when the 64 included two hardware serial ports that were left unused - turns out these serial ports had hardware bugs. [7447]
- 2008-Oct-21: Slashdot discusses recovering moldy electronics, such as might be caused by flood damage. [7060]
- 2008-Sep-01: Running the Acorn Archimedes emulator from disk images. [6777]
- 2008-Aug-22: The history of the glory days of Atari. [6725]
- 2008-Jul-15: Extracting data from old computer cassette tapes, in this case containing the 4K BASIC of the original Apple I, by digitizing the "audio" signal and then examining the width of the tone pulses. There's hope for that old box of Commodore PET tapes in my basement. [6523]
- 2008-May-08: Slashdot discusses Retreiving Data from old Amstrad Floppies. The discussion includes links to Mounting a 3" drive on a PC and the Disk2FDI program that will make formatted disk image files from floppy disks. [6074]