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I haven't, but I'd like to. Anyone who's reading a thousand tapes nowadays must be doing something interesting. :) Well, probably. There was a stack of floppy
by sillysaurus3 9y ago
I haven't, but I'd like to. Anyone who's reading a thousand tapes nowadays must be doing something interesting. :)
Well, probably.
There was a stack of floppy disks sitting on a shelf in an old thrift store. I couldn't help but buy it for $1. What could they contain? They're sitting on my desk right now. I still haven't bought a floppy disk reader, but I'm really curious. I assume a USB floppy disk drive + linux will be enough to dump the raw bytes, but I haven't looked into it. Spelunking around old tech is fascinating for unknown reasons.
- marak830 9y agoGood luck pulling off any usable data, I still remember going through over 100 flopies as a teenager looking for files I had backedup and seeing so many damn read errors. Although now I'm interested to know what's on those disks you have :-p
- sillysaurus3 9y agoThe six disks say: Lotus 2/22/93 Lazarus, (formatted) WP LAZ6 Backup 13 Backup 12 Backup 11 All the backup discs are scratched out with pen though. I hope they didn't wipe them!
- marak830 9y agoI wonder if lotus still works, and if those backups are sequental. Good luck getting the data!