Previously Unknown Warhol Works Discovered on Floppy Disks from 1985

Re:Previously Unknown Warhol Works Discovered on Floppy Disk... by andyjohnson0 on Thursday April 24, 2014 @09:53AM (#7640245)

Interesting that they used a KryoFlux [1] (just visible next to the laptop in the third image) to recover the data. I used one earlier this year to recover some source code from some old 5.25" floppies that I'd last used in the early/mid eighties and which were otherwise unreadable. This was some of the first code I ever wrote, and it was fascinating to read it again and run it under emulation. The KryoFlux software is definitely not simple to use but it did the job for me.

If you've got any old floppies that you might one day want to read then get the data off them now because, if they've not already succumbed to entropy, they soon will.

(If anyone in the UK wants to buy a slightly used KryoFlux then my email is in my profile.)

[1] http://www.kryoflux.com/

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Re:Previously Unknown Warhol Works Discovered on Floppy Disk... by sp332 on Thursday April 24, 2014 @11:27AM (#7640864)

"Floppy Disks: It’s Too Late" http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/3191

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Re:Previously Unknown Warhol Works Discovered on Floppy Disk... by andyjohnson0 on Thursday April 24, 2014 @05:28PM (#7643155)

Thanks for posting that link. It was actually reading that article some-time last year that reminded me about the floppies I had stashed away and got me stared on trying to recover their contents.

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