Date   : Thu, 23 Feb 2006 19:36:16 +0000
From   : Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk@...>
Subject: Re: BBC B+ 128k

Littlefield Aaron wrote:
> Do you ever stumble across collections like this? 

With disturbing regularity! I tend to mention that I collect Acorn stuff 
myself when I'm traveling about picking up bits for the museum, and it's 
surprising how many times it's yielded a car boot full of stuff...

> Lord knows what's on the
> disks, first priority is to get the Beeb up and run. At the minute it's not
> very well apparently.

Nice thing about 5.25" media it that it lasts really well - make sure any 
floppy drive heads are kept clean and that the disk surfaces look to be 
relatively dust free and they should be fine.

Have fun!

cheers

Jules