8" floppy system needed to recover old game data

[Doc Shipley]

Vintage Computer Festival wrote:

> On Thu, 6 Oct 2005, Joe R. wrote:
> 
> 
>>   That's rather silly. The disks are worthless where they're at now. Find
>>a reliable shipper, such as FedEx, insure the hell out of the package and
>>ship them.  I've shipped handreds of pounds (weight) of one of a kind books
> 
> 
> More to be a smart-ass than anything, but what good is insuring one of a
> kind data?  It's the data you're after, not the money, and if it's lost,
> you not only lose the data for good, but you then have the uphill
> challenge of trying to convince Fedex that the 30 year old unfinished
> video game that may or may not have been retrievable from your old floppy
> disks was worth what you insured it for.

   The idea is that the carrier will be much more careful if a package 
is insured for $big_num.

   Of course, *every* item is handled with the same care (wink wink, nod 
nod), but strangely enough I've never had a shipment damaged that was 
insured for over $250.


	Doc