Re: Tips for making Twiggy images

Personally, I wouldn't risk damaging the disks - there may be some people that might be able to lift the image if there isn't one already out there

As a working piece of computer memorabilia, I would reduce the chance for mechanical failures and focus on the processing functionality - don't think I would ever want to try to use my twiggy - last time was early 90's and although it booted, I realized it may just as well have killed my heads.

Good luck with your curiosity - keep us posted!

On Sunday, January 25, 2015 at 1:43:53 PM UTC-5, Tom Stepleton wrote:
>
> Hi LisaListers,
>
> I took a chance the other day and bought an unopened 1.0 edition of the
> Pascal Workshop. I intend to open it once it arrives; since they aren't
> online yet, it'll be good to scan those manuals and hopefully get some disk
> images.
>
> (I don't know if there are disk images of the released 1.0 workshop on
> bitsavers; there's a set of images called "wshp84" in
> /bits/Apple/Lisa/monitor, with "26 April 84" and "backup" showing on the
> pictures of the disk label, so it certainly could be a real copy instead of
> some Apple-internal prerelease, perhaps serialized.)
>
> In any case, the Twiggies inside the box are surely of official Apple
> FileWare manufacture, which means that the magnetic media may have degraded
> somewhat already; such are the risks of buying unopened.
>
> From previous discussions on this list, it sounds like some of you
> archivists may have managed some successful reads of disks with some
> degradation. What were your techniques? How did you deal with some of the
> material accumulating on drive heads and pads?
>
> Thanks for any guidance,
> --Tom
>

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