Subj : Resurgence of non-mainstr
To : Boraxman
From : Moondog
Date : Fri May 06 2022 12:18 pm
Re: Resurgence of non-mainstr
By: Boraxman to MRO on Thu May 05 2022 08:36 pm
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> MR> Re: Resurgence of non-mainstr
> MR> By: Nightfox to Boraxman on Tue May 03 2022 12:45 pm
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> > Re: Resurgence of non-mainstr
> > By: Boraxman to Kaelon on Tue May 03 2022 06:34 pm
> >
> > Bo> I still have some data from the 90s and 2000's, but most people I wo
> > Bo> wager, don't, and if they do, it is lost, obscure, opaque. Look at a
> > Bo> the BBS's that existed in the 80's and 90's, how many of those are n
> > Bo> lost forever?
> >
> > When I took my original BBS down in 2000, I burned a backup of it onto a
> > CD-R. Last I checked (just a few years ago), that CD-R is still readable.
> >
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> MR> it's readable until it isn't. it depends on that day in the factory,
> MR> the media type, your drive, and the environment it's in.
>
> MR> even in a perfect environment i had cds rot
>
> Mine are all good, including DVD's, except for a few which have deteriorated
> around the edges. A bad lot from one spindle.
>
> But the last time you checked, may be the last time you could have ever read
> the disk, so it is best to move them to Hard Drive and make a backup of the
> Hard Drive if you don't want to lose the files.
>
A couple of years back I noticed that Flagnet had a Facebook page. I was on
there from 1991 to 1994, when they moved from Michigan to Indiana, and
dropped their local call in number. There were five or six BBS in my area
that I had continued using until 1997 when they finally moved to websites on
the internet. Flagnet was primarily a Commodore user's site but open to
anyone. It was all run on an Amiga. The operator took it down around the
same time others took their BBS' down in 96-97, but kept his machine in
storage. Later on he brought it back out to access through Telnet, and began
having problems due to bad capacitors and a leaky battery. A few years passed
and he found another Amiga locally. I don't know what he did wrong, but he
somehow lost information when he hooked his external drives back up. He
thouht he had CD backups, but they all went bad too. Lat time I asked him
about it, he has made no plans to build up a new BBS from scratch.
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