[Geysers] Data from early GPS survey unearthed

[Bill Johnson]

Is this still a live issue?  If so, Mike, please drop me a line at my GOSA
address (bjohnson2 at gosa.org. copied here).  There's a fellow down the
street who thinks he can read these disks and may have a Colorado Backup
that can read them.

-- Bill Johnson
GOSA "shopkeeper"

On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 12:21 PM, Lucille Reilly <thedulcimerlady at juno.com>
wrote:

> I have an Old Mac with a "superdrive" that reads both 800k and 1.4MB
> floppies.  I have NO time to mess with conversions if this will work, but
> anyone in the metro Denver area who is interested is welcome to try, and
> I'll feed you lunch!  I transferred a 160-page book I'd written from Mac to
> PC format in about ten minutes.
>
> Write me offlist.  Then I'll find out if the thing still works!  Haven't
> booted it in years.  I don't think I have any floppies here to test.
>
> Lucille Reilly
> Aurora, CO (near the Fitz hospitals)
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: geysers-bounces at lists.wallawalla.edu [mailto:
> geysers-bounces at lists.wallawalla.edu] On Behalf Of Mike O'Brien
> Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2015 10:14 AM
> To: Geyser Observation Reports
> Subject: Re: [Geysers] Data from early GPS survey unearthed
>
> In answer to a number of inquiries, the 50 backup floppies are 3.5”
> floppies that were created with Colorado Backup.  I don’t know which
> version, and from what I read in various forums via Google, later versions
> of Colorado Backup were unable to read backups made with earlier versions.
> So whoever reads them will probably have to point various version at the
> disks until one of them works.  Certainly no current software will read any
> version of Colorado Backup’s format.
>
> There’s also the likely problem of the media having aged out.
>
> Mike O’Brien
>
> > On Nov 3, 2015, at 8:37 AM, David Monteith <dmonteit at comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> > Mike:
> >
> > Do you know what software was used for the backup?  Are the disks 3.5
> > or 5.25?
> >
> > Dave
> >
> >  On Sun, 2015-11-01 at 15:25 -0800, Mike O'Brien wrote:
> >> A little history: back in 1993, I made shameless use of my position
> >> as a magazine columnist at the time to inveigle Trimble Navigation
> >> into loaning the NPS about $20,000 worth of survey-grade GPS gear.
> >> Rick Hutchinson, myself, and a bunch of my friends spent a couple of
> >> weeks touring around the near back country doing a GPS survey of
> >> places like the River Group, the Kaleidoscope area and the Sprinkler
> >> Group.
> >>
> >> After Rick’s death, no one was able to turn up the data files from
> >> that survey.  I’ve got them on about 50 floppy disks, in a backup
> >> format that can’t be read by any current software, so no joy there.
> >>
> >> However, in clearing out a storage room, I came across a manila
> >> folder with a bunch of hand-written tables of the reduced survey
> >> data, giving the differentially corrected locations of a whole bunch
> >> of features, together with some rough, hand-drawn sketch maps showing
> >> the features that were surveyed.
> >>
> >> I’m not sure who would most benefit from this data.  I’m looking for
> >> suggestions as to whom I should send it to.
> >>
> >> Mike O'Brien
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