Where I work, there’s a computer museum. I was going through some boxes and found this. The real jem here is the 16bit version.

  • @thisbenzingringOP
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    39 months ago

    True but you would be surprised how often they are if they were kept in a stable environment. We have had lots of luck with older disks

    • IninewCrow
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      39 months ago

      I went through some of my old stuff a year ago and found a bundle of 20 1.44 floppies wrapped in aluminum foil in a plastic case. It was a friend of mine who did music production and the disks are labelled as MIDI files. I keep forgetting that I should mail these things to him as he hasn’t looked at them in about 30 years. I had the idea of mailing them using his own name and pretending it was his past self sending him stuff.

    • @dparticiple@sh.itjust.works
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      29 months ago

      I’ve also had surprising success extracting data from old floppy disks. I went through a box of 50 or so 3.5" disks a year or two ago, some of which were 25+ years old, and about 80% of them were either readable directly, or fully/mostly recoverable using GNU ddrescue. Something like a Greaseweazle would likely read even more. Always worth a try!