Well, the original messages might have seen a floppy disk, but I would be surprised if a recovered archive will include such messages. On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 5:29 PM, coderman<coderman@protonmail.com> wrote: ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Friday, September 18, 2020 11:03 PM, jim bell <jdb10987@yahoo.com> wrote: ... By today, such hard disks would presumably have been retired 2-3 times. But I figure that many people would put the retired disk into a closet, a basement, or an attic, so there's nothing unreasonable about thinking that the data is still available, if somebody has the motivation to search for it. this is the crux; i am hopeful a more complete copy will yet turn up... we know they exist. but who has them? :) best regards,