Subj : Re: AmigaNet nodelist archive
To   : Stephen Walsh
From : Wilfred van Velzen
Date : Wed Jan 22 2025 09:37:03

Hi Stephen,

On 2025-01-22 13:15:58, you wrote to me:

 WV>> Yes, I did that decades ago. But there might have been already a bit
 WV>> of corrosion at the time of removal, if I remember correctly. I don't
 WV>> know if it did any damage. The Amiga 4000 hasn't been turned on since
 WV>> then. And I probably shouldn't because of aged capacitors, that need
 WV>> to be replaced to not cause any further damage before I turn it on...

 SW> Yeah best to get them replaced, and the battery acid looked at.

I remember cleaning the board after removing the battery. So if there was any
residual acid, it couldn't have done any further damage.

 WV>> Good to know. But I had bad experiences with old HD's in the last
 WV>> couple of weeks. All aged 10 years or older, and not been turned on
 WV>> for maybe 5 to 10 years. All would spin up just fine, but 3 out of 7
 WV>> or 8 had read problems on some files...

 SW> Yeah, it's a 50/50 chance with old drives. I've been able to image old
drives
 SW> in the past... A couple just in time before they then died. #-\

I'll have to wait and see with my Amiga drives.

 WV>> Do you maybe have archives or backups from the 90's? I see you are
 WV>> already present in the oldest AmigaNet nodelist from 1995 that is in
 WV>> the archive! ;-)

 SW> No old backup's... I left the amiga screen just as C= died! Only got back
into
 SW> it about 10 years ago now..

Pitty! ;-)

 SW> A lot of water under the bridge, and lost data.... I now do backup's a
 SW> lot more often (Both pc/amiga).

Same here. I think you lived much more in the moment then, and enjoyed your
time spend on the Amniga, and backups didn't come to mind (so much). Also
computers didn't take up such a big part of daily live. LCD screens didn't even
 exist, and digital photo camera's neither, or were way to expensive. So there
was much less data, and HD space was much more expensive and less available...

Bye, Wilfred.

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