So how should I try to recover data from my floppies without sending them to this polite gentleman? Do 5 dd images and do a bit-for-bit comparison? I would imag

So how should I try to recover data from my floppies without sending them to this polite gentleman? Do 5 dd images and do a bit-for-bit comparison? I would imagine that there are already utilities out there to do this (though probably with a focus on hard drives). It will also be interesting to find file formats that have long since died and require the original software running in a VM to read. This reminds me, I need to ping the pbForth [0] author to see if he has an old version of his software. I would like to see the first code that I ever wrote - a line following Mindstorms robot programmed during a summer computer camp! That camp was a large part of why I'm getting my PhD in CompE today. [0]: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Lego/pbforth.html http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Lego/pbforth.html