Yes Roy it is a nice gadget and there are equivalents for other media
as well. If you have all those machines and you still have the disks
that go with them I suggest you get one and add images of your disks
to archive.org or the VCF or something.
I got into it because I am trying now to archive the work of my
father's coworkers in the late 1970s to early 1990s on video graphics
hardware. Drivers etc that likely no one else has by now.
On Sat, Feb 15, 2025 at 3:13?PM Roy J. Tellason, Sr. via groups.io
<roy@...> wrote:
On Friday 14 February 2025 03:39:57 pm Matt Harris via groups.io wrote:
Every person who has access to old floppy media of virtually any kind made for anything should own a Greasewazle.
(I'm not affiliated - I just appreciate the product that much!)
Interesting gadget, there. In this room is my Imsai 8080, a Kaypro 4, and elsewhere is parked an Osborne Executive, none of which have been powered on in several years. In a cabinet over there is a bunch of floppies. And I can't remember the last time I used one, for any reason whatsoever. But years ago? I'd have been all over getting one of those...
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