I suppose it's inevitable that I would run into the obsolescent hardware issue. I've had an old 3/4" mag tape lying about since my college days. I'm unable to get at the contents 'cause I just don't have a PDP 11/70 hanging about with attendant tape drives.
My current issue is, having discovered the original source to my thesis on Apple floppy disks, being unable to retrieve the contents. My Power Computing clone wants to format the disks (I suspect they are 400k floppies) and my laptop doesn't even have a floppy drive.
So now I have to find someone with a Mac SE or something that can read it and then hope that their machine is Internet-enabled or networked so I can get the content off the disks.
Either that or give up hope that I'll ever see my thesis in electronic form again.
Posted by artandscience at March 21, 2004 09:53 AM