Well, the original messages might have seen a floppy disk, but I would be surprised if a recovered archive will include such messages.<br><br><div id="ymail_android_signature"><br></div> <br> <blockquote style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;"> <div style="font-family:Roboto, sans-serif; color:#6D00F6;"> <div>On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 5:29 PM, coderman</div><div>&lt;coderman@protonmail.com&gt; wrote:</div> </div> <div style="padding: 10px 0 0 20px; margin: 10px 0 0 0; border-left: 1px solid #6D00F6;"> <div id="yiv2487831711"><div><div>‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐<br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv2487831711yqt8614506308" id="yiv2487831711yqtfd09657"><div> On Friday, September 18, 2020 11:03 PM, jim bell &lt;jdb10987@yahoo.com&gt; wrote:<br clear="none"></div>...</div><blockquote class="yiv2487831711protonmail_quote" type="cite"><div><div style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#26282a;"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="yiv2487831711yqt8614506308" id="yiv2487831711yqtfd73371">&nbsp;By today, such hard disks would presumably have been retired 2-3 times.&nbsp; &nbsp;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.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><br clear="none"></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>this is the crux; i am hopeful a more complete copy will yet turn up...<br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>we know they exist. but who has them? :)<br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>best regards,<div class="yiv2487831711yqt8614506308" id="yiv2487831711yqtfd07027"><br clear="none"></div></div></div></div> </div> </blockquote>