8" floppy system needed to recover old game data

[Chuck Guzis]

On 10/6/2005 at 2:04 PM Allison wrote

>Ideally someone on the US west coast can handle it and ship the data via 
>internet.  

We're only about 550 miles north on Interstate 5 from San Francsico and data recovery and conversion is what we do.   We handle 8" diskettes, CP/M and otherwise, hard/soft sectored, GCR, etc.  No problem.

And you haven't LIVED until you've had to work with diskettes used in a machine shop.  Filthy, greasy things that look like they've spent time in someone's oil sump.  Fortunately, I still have a stash of Freon TF...

That said, give me 8" diskettes any day over 5.25" and 3.5" when it comes to reliability.    I've got diskettes from 1976 that read as well as when they were new.  I have 3.5" DSHD diskettes that won't read right a month after purchase.

Cheers,
Chuck