TI cleaning up old stuff

[Nightengale]

Mid 90's I noticed in the San Diego ComputorEdge magazine the 99er group here was giving away a bunch of TI items.  I scored a PEB, a couple non-quality improved TI's, some odds and ends, and about 65 or so floppies.  The disks can be yours for shipping from south California, USA. PM me, they're mostly music.

[pixelpedant]

I believe the Bill Knecht and Sam Moore Jr music demos pictured here are all preserved elsewhere, at least.  But here's hoping there's more to be discovered!

[+FarmerPotato]

I'm willing and able to convert and archive these online. 

 

That they are mostly music disks, is also interesting to me. 

[Nightengale]

On the way FP

[+FarmerPotato]

Thanks for the floppies! I got  through them all. 
 

The users group own floppies, the music disks, are nearly all degaussed --Kryoflux can't find evidence of any format. Or a disk with bad track 0 goes on to have  other completely unformatted tracks. Alas. Unless they are double density--but the labels all show SSSD. 
 

I verified the same bad track results occur in 2 known good drives. (TEAC 55B) In between bad disks I ran a disk with 40 known  good tracks. So it's definitely decay of the disks. I was afraid they might be shedding oxide, damaging the drives , but alls well with the drives.  
 

The more commercial type disks were easily readable:

 

MG Advanced Diagnostics.

Grand RAM.

Sound FX demo. (With original packaging)  

 

Name  brand disks like Elephant. Utilities. 
 

when I get home I'll begin cross checking what's already in ftp.WHTECH.com or elsewhere. 
 

Thanks!

[jrhodes]

2 hours ago, FarmerPotato said:

Thanks for the floppies! I got  through them all. 
 

The users group own floppies, the music disks, are nearly all degaussed --Kryoflux can't find evidence of any format. Or a disk with bad track 0 goes on to have  other completely unformatted tracks. Alas. Unless they are double density--but the labels all show SSSD.

Thats a shame 😞 At least an attempt was made.

[+Ksarul]

I think we may be missing a good copy of one of the Grand RAM disks, so we might get lucky with that one.