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Wow...

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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...

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

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

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

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

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.