How long do you save your files?

Top Gun · Post by **Top Gun** » Thu Aug 05, 2004 11:03 am

Wow...

STRESSTEST · Post by **STRESSTEST** » Thu Aug 05, 2004 11:09 am

oldest files I have are baby pics of my daughter from 96

Buef · Post by **Buef** » Thu Aug 05, 2004 11:14 am

I have my basic programs on cassette tape from my Atari 400, around '82.

AceCombat · Post by **AceCombat** » Thu Aug 05, 2004 11:23 am

i have a few wav audio files from ~93-95 time frame

Top Wop · Post by **Top Wop** » Thu Aug 05, 2004 11:40 am

Although much of my oldest files were lost after very hastily doing a fdisk on my 1.5 drive, I still have files from when I got my first computer in winter of 96. I got to get a screenie and post it.

STRESSTEST · Post by **STRESSTEST** » Thu Aug 05, 2004 11:44 am

Atari 400.. LOL! that was my first PC as well.

Tricord · Post by **Tricord** » Thu Aug 05, 2004 11:48 am

My oldest file goes back to 1996 I think, on backup somewhere...

Since around ~2000 I keep everything. "My Documents" has grown rather large as a result

Grendel · Post by **Grendel** » Thu Aug 05, 2004 12:25 pm

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DUMP    .C      5.916 .a.. 1988-02-25

Part of a cross-assembler I wrote for the CPC64..

Jagger · Post by **Jagger** » Thu Aug 05, 2004 11:54 pm

1980?? My oldest file is '98-ish. At the VERY earliest. Where do you find storage for 20 years of files, man?

Vindicator · Post by **Vindicator** » Fri Aug 06, 2004 1:28 am

Keep in mind that way back when, files didnt take up much space and the most storage available was less than a gigabyte. Not like today where a 1.5kb text file can get magically inflated to 22kb by MS Word.

Mobius · Post by **Mobius** » Fri Aug 06, 2004 1:37 am

I have files which date back to 1978. Unfortunately, unless I can access a Digital Corp RX-01 or RX-02 8" floppy drive, those files are not readily accessible.

AFAIK - I still have some cassette tapes with Basic programs from 1977 too. The OSI C1P computer they are for actually has a working RS-232 interface, so I guess I could retrieve them if I had to. That PC still works too. Or it did when I fired it up in 1999...

Jeff250 · Post by **Jeff250** » Fri Aug 06, 2004 2:26 am

TUNNEL.PCX -- 2/27/1992 9:15 PM -- a picture I drew when I was 6, apparently.

DigiJo · Post by **DigiJo** » Fri Aug 06, 2004 2:40 am

hey testi, your missing pkzipfix.exe from 1993. tsktsk its a must have

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Fri Aug 06, 2004 7:25 am

I dont think anything on my hard drives is older then 3-4 years.

WarAdvocat · Post by **WarAdvocat** » Fri Aug 06, 2004 7:31 am

My oldest files date back to 1997

That's when I became a PC person. If I ever do decide to re-install some of that stuff, however, I've got savegames for everything from C&C to Homeworld to Mechwarrior & Shogo.

I DO have a disk full of programs I wrote for my Apple II series computers somewhere, but I don't have an Apple II so it doesn't count does it? But if it did, my archive would go back to about 1984 or 85.

I didn't save the commie-whore PET cassettes from Jr. High

Iceman · Post by **Iceman** » Fri Aug 06, 2004 8:54 am

In 1980 I wrote a biorythm program in FORTRAN on a Univac system for a college class. I stored it on punch cards for a few years then transfered it to magnetic tape. Through the years I transfered it from media to media ... I still have the source code for that program.

BTW: Anyone with magnetic media (tapes, floppies, etc...) older than 4 or 5 years ... your files are gone forever.