Adventures in Vintage Microcomputing
About General
I received about 500 8″ floppy disks and some drives from a friend at the ARC Group (thanks Andrew). I set about archiving them and extracting the files. Alan Laughton helped sort out the disk definitions. There was some interest in how i’d done it so i wrote it up here.
A couple of my reviewers noticed my tendency to use “i” as the first person rather than “I”. I won’t deny that it saves me using the shift key, but laziness isn’t the reason.
I use “i” because “I” overstates my importance in the grand scheme of things.
It’s something i adopted (probably copying a mentor) when i was young. I’ve carried it through my life for informal writing, including emails, notes, and stories.
I try to follow the rules for anything formal. This site is not, and will never be, formal!
For this site, i’m trying to describe my activities using the active voice style, which leads to a lot of “i”. I’d prefer to hide behind passive voice, but active voice is widely accepted as being easier to read.
Now stop wasting your time and enjoy the computers!