Thanks, I read the article and I understand all of this. I was just explaining how a kryoflux would not be appropriate for reading a floppy drive "sitting on a

Thanks, I read the article and I understand all of this. I was just explaining how a kryoflux would not be appropriate for reading a floppy drive "sitting on a lab bench", which I assume is the question that the grand-parent comment was asking. Which is not an unreasonable question to ask. People have done similar things with vinyl records - reconstructing the audio from a photograph/scan of the record with no "vinyl drive". https://mediapreservation.wordpress.com/2012/06/20/extracting-audio-from-pictures/ https://mediapreservation.wordpress.com/2012/06/20/extractin...