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A couple of years ago I was moving and decided to do something with the shoeboxes full of 5.25" and 3.5" disks I had sitting in my attic. I couldn't bear just
by dugmartin 15y ago
A couple of years ago I was moving and decided to do something with the shoeboxes full of 5.25" and 3.5" disks I had sitting in my attic.
I couldn't bear just to pitch them so feeling nostalgic I resurrected an old PC (also in the attic) with a 3.5" drive and I was able to read about 50% of them including one that had my Programming Languages class assignments from 1990 (a Lisp REPL with macros written in Pascal and a pretty printer for Modula-2 code). The other disks I cared about where unreadable even after using the freezer trick on them.
Where are they now? The working ones are in a shoebox in my attic in my new house. I'll probably check on them again in 10 years.
btw, if you need a copy of Turbo Pascal 3.0 just let me know...
- klipt 15y agoYou can get Turbo Pascal 5.5 off Embarcadero's (formerly Borland's) website: http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/20803 http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/20803 Of course, Free Pascal is a better modern alternative.