Jacob
Rear Admiral
Hey all,
I work at a library, and I've been working with our library's archivist from time to time. One of the things that she recently found are these storage disks from a long, long time ago. Like, 1995-1996 long ago.
We know that the one on the left is a 3M TR-1 Minicartridge (mainly due to the label), but we don't know what the one on the right is. I included pictures of them for comparison. When I saw these, I thought of this website due to the whole EA archives thing that you guys did years ago. So, does anyone know what the other one is?
To make matters worse, we're pretty sure that we don't have anything that can read them, and the IT department on campus is pretty sure that they don't either. I've done some research, and we might be able to get a TR-1 reader used for around $40-150, but the quality of these used drives is obviously iffy, since most of the eBay sellers are selling them "as is" with only having checked to see if they turn on.
That being said, since we don't know what the other format (the one on the right) is, we can't really ballpark how much a drive for the other format. Can anyone help us out? Any information would be greatly appreciated.
Edit: And no, I totally don't have video game release dates written on the same desk calendar as my work schedule.
I work at a library, and I've been working with our library's archivist from time to time. One of the things that she recently found are these storage disks from a long, long time ago. Like, 1995-1996 long ago.
We know that the one on the left is a 3M TR-1 Minicartridge (mainly due to the label), but we don't know what the one on the right is. I included pictures of them for comparison. When I saw these, I thought of this website due to the whole EA archives thing that you guys did years ago. So, does anyone know what the other one is?
To make matters worse, we're pretty sure that we don't have anything that can read them, and the IT department on campus is pretty sure that they don't either. I've done some research, and we might be able to get a TR-1 reader used for around $40-150, but the quality of these used drives is obviously iffy, since most of the eBay sellers are selling them "as is" with only having checked to see if they turn on.
That being said, since we don't know what the other format (the one on the right) is, we can't really ballpark how much a drive for the other format. Can anyone help us out? Any information would be greatly appreciated.
Edit: And no, I totally don't have video game release dates written on the same desk calendar as my work schedule.