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I recently did a deep dive into all the 5.25" disks I could find around. I do sort of remember some of the stuff I found, but some of it was rather foreign. I
by th0ma5 9y ago
I recently did a deep dive into all the 5.25" disks I could find around. I do sort of remember some of the stuff I found, but some of it was rather foreign.
I now have a handful of "flippy" disks and have to set up an old 1541 drive to read these.
I was surprised how much of it was readable, the amount of dust and bad smell these things developed over the 25 years in a basement, but also that I only had about 200 megs of data at the end of the multi-day process.
I also spent some time digitizing Super 8 film too, so it has been a nostalgia trip.
- pasta 9y agoSome time ago I listened to my old casette tapes. I was amazed by the 'CD' quality some still had. Tape is more durable than I thought. Also: most floppy disks have dust cleaners. So they are not affected by dusk that much. Also remember drilling holes in the disk for more storage? ;)