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Interesting that they used a KryoFlux [1] (just visible next to the laptop in the third image) to recover the data. I used one earlier this year to recover some
by andyjohnson0 13y ago
Interesting that they used a KryoFlux [1] (just visible next to the laptop in the third image) to recover the data. I used one earlier this year to recover some source code from some old 5.25" floppies that I'd last used in the early/mid eighties and which were otherwise unreadable. This was some of the first code I ever wrote, and it was fascinating to read it again and run it under emulation. The KryoFlux software is definitely not simple to use but it did the job for me.
If you've got any old floppies that you might one day want to read then get the data off them now because, if they've not already succumbed to entropy, they soon will.
(If anyone in the UK wants to buy a slightly used KryoFlux then my email is in my profile.)
[1] http://www.kryoflux.com/ http://www.kryoflux.com/
- sp332 13y ago"Floppy Disks: It’s Too Late" http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/3191 http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/3191
- andyjohnson0 13y agoThanks for posting that link. It was actually reading that article some-time last year that reminded me about the floppies I had stashed away and got me stared on trying to recover their contents.