ImageDisk project is canceled - real backups are needed

[Kevin Handy]

woodelf wrote:

> But could they be legally read in the first place? It seems with all 
> this talk of copywright
> only using the OS supplied by the disk's in the first place is it 
> legal. I think the best way to
> archive the disks of any format  is to keep the orginal  hardware  and 
> media  working.

Not all disks contain operating system software.
Many of us have disks with our own software/data/writings on
them, which should be legal for us to read no matter what copywrite
is in place (you don't usually copyright against yourself).