Old Hardware

[Michael Butash]

I'd typically find floppies that didn't work after a few years for whatever
reason back when they were the shiznit still, I can't imagine they hold up
much over time, and imagine charging for someone scanning hundreds of them
and not recovering anything more often than not.  I have binders full of
cd's and dvd's as well I don't much expect to work much better if I ever
had to dig them out for anything important.

Your best option for profitability doing that is probably for tips to the
fbi for questionable things you *do* find
<https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/fbi-geek-squad-customer-data-seach_us_5aa004b3e4b002df2c5fc9bc>like
geek squad does
<https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/fbi-geek-squad-customer-data-seach_us_5aa004b3e4b002df2c5fc9bc>
.

-mb


On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 10:03 AM Jim <azanorak at gmail.com> wrote:

> This thread got me thinking.  I wonder what kind of opportunities there
> might be for someone to start a business that specializes in recovering
> data from old formats people don't use anymore.
> On 1/7/19 10:26 PM, Thomas Scott wrote:
>
> http://www.deviceside.com/fc5025.html - found this as a possible
> solution, if you're unable to find a USB drive or an old machine that's
> bootable
>
> On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 12:12 PM Michael Butash <michael at butash.net> wrote:
>
>> I had an old thinkpad usb 3.5 floppy disk drive accessory I kept around
>> to boot cranky systems back in the day, as oddly when some wouldn't work
>> with certain usb cd, that floppy always worked.  I'd offer it up, but I
>> haven't seen/used it in 10+ years, and don't even know where to start
>> looking for it, but I'm sure you can still find them on ebay.
>>
>> Good luck on the 5 inch, that you're just going to need an old relic
>> system for I think, but wouldn't surprise me to see some hackers have made
>> adapters to a more modern interface and power for those as well.
>>
>> -mb
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 6, 2019 at 9:33 AM Matthew Gibson <
>> guanjun.de.geliqian at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> My parents have been cleaning out their home and came across some 3 1/2
>>> inch floppy disks, they also found some 5 inch floppies. Does anyone have
>>> an appropriate drive for either of these media items? I am looking to
>>> borrow, but I don't imagine it will be difficult to scrounge up the funds
>>> to purchase a drive or two. All we are wanting us to pull what data we can
>>> off them.
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