My old BBS system from the 80s still exists on a 200Mb hard drive, but I no longer have any way to read that drive. Who knows what's on my other ancient hard drives :-)
A friend of mine was able to rescue all my software for the PDP-11 from 8" floppies. I put what was mine on github.
A few years ago I tried to power up my old computers. None of them would power up. A couple made a popping sound and smoke came out. Probably all bad caps.
I did find a box of 20 or so zip drives circa 2000, and my old zip drive, which amazingly still worked. I copied everything off onto modern media.
A friend of mine was able to rescue all my software for the PDP-11 from 8" floppies. I put what was mine on github.
A few years ago I tried to power up my old computers. None of them would power up. A couple made a popping sound and smoke came out. Probably all bad caps.
I did find a box of 20 or so zip drives circa 2000, and my old zip drive, which amazingly still worked. I copied everything off onto modern media.