Recovering floppy disks
There is a cool story about
recovering some Andy Warhol artwork from some 1985 Commodore Amiga floppy disks.
The system they used to recover the data is also very cool - check out
KryoFlux:
KryoFlux is a USB-based floppy controller designed specifically for reliability, precision, and getting low-level reads suitable for software preservation. It's here, it's there and it's working - today. This is the original developed by The Software Preservation Society, the authority in authentic disk imaging and floppy disk preservation. SPS experts are industry veterans with more than 25 years of experience in computers and media archival, also including film restoration, transfer and archival. Chances are good you've used one of their applications (e.g. X-Copy and Cyclone) or played one of their games (e.g. Abandoned Places) in the past. Code designed by our engineers is being used in millions of industrial and consumer products, and if you've ever used a next-gen game console, chances are again good you've also already used it without ever noticing.
Looks like a great resource if you are having to recover data from older systems.
Posted by DaveH at April 24, 2014 10:14 AM