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Re:Previously Unknown Warhol Works Discovered on Floppy Disk... by theandrewbailey on Thursday April 24, 2014 @10:52AM (#7640619)
Its fantastic that they were able to get the data off. Floppies that old are probably beyond recoverable by ordinary people by now.

I am reminded of Jason Scott's article. http://pubhub.hivefire.com/articles/share/16870/

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Re:Previously Unknown Warhol Works Discovered on Floppy Disk... by nsxwolf on Thursday April 24, 2014 @11:14AM (#7640778)
Is the situation really that dire? I have a large collection of Apple II games on 5.25 and they all work. I frequently buy old boxed games off eBay and never have problems.

Certainly how they are stored counts for a lot.

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