Silly question ... Is the person whose disks they are still alive? If
so perhaps you could ask them.
Otherwise it becomes a risk management decision. How important is the
person and how likely is it that the disks contain something of real
value which is not in the rest of the collection?
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-----Original Message-----
From: Archivists, conservators and records managers.
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Helen Palmer
Sent: 16 November 2005 09:45
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Subject: Amstrad disks
Hello all,
Please forgive a question on a subject which I know has come up before,
but I was wondering whether there were any new thoughts on the subject.
We are currently cataloguing a collection of personal papers amongst
which
is a box of about forty 3" Amstrad disks. I know that there are
companies
which will migrate this data to newer formats, but we currently have no
way of knowing what is on these disks, whether it is material replicated
elsewhere in the collection, and whether migration will be worth the
cost.
Has anyone found any way around this issue? Does anyone have an old
Amstrad PCW9512 we could beg or borrow (we probably wouldn't resort to
stealing)? Has anyone had any positive (or negative) experiences with
companies offering migration services? Any advice would be most welcome.
Jennie Hill
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