Re:Copy That Floppy – Cambridge guide for preserving data fr...
by officeplant on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @10:10AM
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>The chance that one would have anything important on a floppy that is not already backed up in the year of 2026 must be close to zero.
Except the fact that there is still tons of old un-archived software out there in the wild because we used floppies for decades.
One of the greatest things about the retro computing community is when they buy or find old software they tend to try to image it and put it up on archive.org.
So much software has already been lost to time unfortunately.
Except the fact that there is still tons of old un-archived software out there in the wild because we used floppies for decades.
One of the greatest things about the retro computing community is when they buy or find old software they tend to try to image it and put it up on archive.org.
So much software has already been lost to time unfortunately.