[vcf-midatlantic] Museum report

[Joseph Oprysko]

My view on this is not the fact that we are in able to keep the HARDWARE
functioning. We can keep that maintained for 10000 years. The magnetic
media utilized by the disk drives have been reaching their end of life, NOS
boxes have been opened, used, and found to be damaging to the hardware as
the media is sloughing or flaking off the Mylar of the disk itself. So the
question becomes restoration vs visual preservation while not losing
logical functionality.

On Tuesday, December 29, 2015, Douglas Crawford via vcf-midatlantic <
vcf-midatlantic at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:

>
> Our exhibit next time won't have the 1541 drives, but will use uIEC instead
>> to reduce power and troubleshooting.
>>
>
> My $.02
> Aw, lets be careful about that. I like the convenience of the SD card file
> systems
> and they have their place, but working disk drives are important to the
> demoing history.
> This was clear to me at NY Maker, and also was commented to me by
> several individuals at VCFE.  If we can't keep disk drives going, we might
> as well
> admit failure on the whole restoration scene.
>
> BTW: I think the IBM PC boot drive is bad too or the DOS floppy in the
> drive is bad.
> It boots right into ROM basic.
>
> DC
>


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