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Retrieving Data From Old Amstrad Floppies? 323

Posted by timothy from the but-I-thought-you-said-it-was-obscure dept.
Jeppe Utzon writes "Back in 1987, when I was a teenager in high school still, I spent most evenings, nights and weekends writing small programs in BASIC on my Amstrad CPC 6128. Some of these programs were simple games, some drew graphics, some could help me with math or train me in French — and most were utterly pointless. But I never had as much satisfying fun as when writing those programs — even if no one in my family understood any of it when I proudly displayed the fruits of three sleepless nights of labor. Now, 20 years later, I still have a sealed pack of about 15 disks with all my work on them (along with a few of my favorite games) and I was wondering if it was possible to get the data out somehow so that I could run it in emulation on my Mac. I know of the emulators, but have no clue what would be needed to extract the data — or if it is even extractable after all these years. I realize the chances of the data still being intact are quite low, but I'd like to give it a shot. So if anyone has any pointers it would be greatly appreciated." A large hurdle will be finding a drive to read the Amstrad disks at all.
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Submission + - CDN forces 50y reactor online against safety regs (www.cbc.ca)

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Socguy writes: "The Canadian government has passed legislation that will reopen an Ontario nuclear reactor that produces most of the world's supply of critical medical isotopes, even though the site has been shut down for safety maintenance.

Witnesses and experts were called in to the House to face questions about safety concerns and all parties eventually voiced support for the bill, which would effectively suspend CNSC's oversight role for 120 days.

The Chalk River reactor ceased operating on Nov. 18. Pressure on the government to restart operations began to build after delays in the shutdown of the government-run site, which generates two-thirds of the world's radioisotopes, began to cause a critical shortage of radioisotopes.

Harper declared in the House of Commons "there will be no nuclear accident" resulting from reopening the plant, citing an independent analysis of the site that already said there would be no safety risks.

http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2007/12/11/radioisotope-legislation.html

However not eveyone is happy with the Canadian government decision to overrule the national safety regulator.

Green Party Leader Elizabeth May accused Prime Minister Stephen Harper of undermining nuclear safety in Canada by "turning his guns" on the federally appointed regulator.

She also alleged the company that runs the reactor, Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd., has been "negligent, if not criminally negligent" in its operation of the more than 50-year-old facility.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/12/12/isotope-reax.html"

Comment Re:Annoying, but they usually work for me.... (Score 1) 433

by rokii (#20500359) Attached to: 1300 Unopened Fry's Rebate Forms Found In Dumpster
Worked mostly for me too.... until one rebate from "MGE Company" for something I got at Frys. The company's rebate web site had all my information with red: Rebate Disqualification Reason: Missing reciept Mind you, the rebate form was one of those rebate receipts, you know, where the rebate form is the receipt.... I never heard back from the company's "Customer Service". So, I will never buying anything from MGE Company, and I avoid anything with a rebate, especially from Frys, with few exceptions. (Staples and Costco have been pretty good about their rebates.)

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