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I'd guess everything worked fine, as he was able to unzip the single zip file on the floppy.

• jgrahamc 17y ago
  Yes, the ZIP file was perfectly intact and there was nothing else on the floppy. It's worth noting the size of the ZIP file: it took up almost the entire disk.
  • jacquesm 17y ago
    neat. It would be nice to do a sampling of many different storage media after a decade or more and see what the error rate is. Your example makes me wonder if we shouldn't wait another decade. It'll be harder and harder to find the hardware though.
  • unexpected 17y ago
    I'm just curious, but what did the README files contain? You seem to be really organized!
    • jgrahamc 17y ago
      If you look at the screenshot in the blog post you can see a couple of them. The top level one described briefly what the ZIP file contained and then further down there were files given information about the subdirectories and things like the file extensions used. In one directory there was a file describing how I had compressed the SunOS file names into 8.5 DOS names. Pretty important because the LaTeX files referenced the long names. There was also an interesting file called MACROS. It contained a note saying that it was meant to be a symlink to a different directory (also called MACROS) but since DOS didn't support symlinks...