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Fun question.. I have files copied off floppy disks from the late 80s, so those would be the oldest, but they have newer timstamps. In terms of actual timestam
by jjav 2y ago
Fun question.. I have files copied off floppy disks from the late 80s, so those would be the oldest, but they have newer timstamps.
In terms of actual timestamp, the oldest I found was "Aug 18 1994", a text file with some notes from a concert that I wrote to send to friends.
-rw-r--r-- 1 uid uid 21714 Aug 18 1994 concert
- mbg721 2y agoI wish my old floppies were in good enough shape for that. They got to an unreadable state before I thought to copy them.
- jjav 2y agoThe files from the 80s floppies have timestamps in 1999, so they were only a bit over ten years old back when I copied them off the floppies. I did test some of the floppies in later years and still seemed to work. I still have the floppies but no longer have a working 5.25" drive to try them on!
- meindnoch 2y agoYou can try with advanced techniques: https://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2021/05/recovering-lost-treasure-filled-floppy.html https://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2021/05/recovering-l...
- pandemic_region 2y agoDon't leave us hanging man share them notes ;-)