One week left until the MARCH Workshop on September 19-20 is still on. Please sign up on this form if you plan to attend: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gKh8Rr0btGpXQfPoqwGi9J-yQ_6kManfNIqi... The Greaseweazle setups are still planned to be there if you want to try your hand at archiving some of your old floppy disk software collection, or even try to create boot floppies (or other real floppy disks) for your vintage computers. I just bought a few extra Greaseweazle boards, so I'm looking to have a few more setups ready to use and share. Please keep in mind that while there will be on-site, high-level knowledge on the use of a Greaseweazle from some of the attendees, it is still intended to be a learning event for all involved. So whether you are new or a seasoned user of Greaseweazle, the goal remains the same... successful archiving of data. No guarantees, of course, but the resources are there to get the most out of what can still be retrieved. If you plan to archive your disks, you must, of course, bring your disks. You must also provide your own portable media to save the archived disk images and files to. Any portable USB drive or USB thumb drive should suffice. We reserve the right to inspect the condition of the original floppies due to the possibility of dirt, mold, other contaminants, and/or damage before they are allowed to be inserted into the Greaseweazle drives. We also cannot guarantee successful reads and data extraction. Sometimes a bad disk is really a bad disk. As always, the Workshop will still be available for regular workshop activities. Workshop location: InfoAge Science and History Museums, building 9010-D 2201 Marconi Road Wall, NJ 07719 TIME Saturday, Sep 19 START time = 10 A.M. END time = 7 P.M. Sunday, Sep 20 START time = 9 A.M. and END = 4 P.M. Repair Workshops @ InfoAge – Vintage Computer Federation <https://vcfed.org/repair-workshops-at-infoage/> -------------------------- What is Greaseweazle? Greaseweazle is a clever hardware device that lets you connect standard 34-pin floppy drives (5.25" and 3.5") to a modern computer, and with open-source software, you can back up floppy disks at the flux level for later analysis or file extraction. I personally own two Greaseweazle systems and plan on setting them up for shared use. I can also show how I configure the setup and how the software works, in case you want to pursue setting up a Greaseweazle setup of your own someday. -------------------------- Any questions, feel free to reply. Looking forward to seeing you at the Workshop! Jeff Salzman VCF Steering Committee MARCH Workshop Manager