How to store 3.5" floppy disks (Amiga, Macintosh, PC)
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Does anyone store floppy disks still?
I've just found some boxes containing around 600-700 3.5" floppy disks dating back as far as 1988. Most are Amiga applications, data disks, cover disks but some are PC disks and some were my schoolwork written either on Amiga disks or on the school Macintosh computers we had in the early '90s. One seems to contain some C programs I wrote at university.
I haven't seen these disks since moving house 15 years ago, and now that I have them, I'd be keen to find a way to preserve them as best as I can in case there's any way I can retrieve the data. I still have an Amiga A500 and an A4000. I've also got several old PCs with floppy drives, but I don't have a classic Macintosh knocking about. A lot of the Amiga games are in their original boxes, so maybe those might have some value. Things like Lemmings, Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge, Back to the Future II, Batman etc.
Anyway assuming you had all these diskettes, how would you store them if you wanted to preserve them? Or would you bin them? In my day job I build systems capable of storing hundreds of petabytes data, and here I am worrying about a bunch of floppy disks containing less than 1MB each!
I've just found some boxes containing around 600-700 3.5" floppy disks dating back as far as 1988. Most are Amiga applications, data disks, cover disks but some are PC disks and some were my schoolwork written either on Amiga disks or on the school Macintosh computers we had in the early '90s. One seems to contain some C programs I wrote at university.
I haven't seen these disks since moving house 15 years ago, and now that I have them, I'd be keen to find a way to preserve them as best as I can in case there's any way I can retrieve the data. I still have an Amiga A500 and an A4000. I've also got several old PCs with floppy drives, but I don't have a classic Macintosh knocking about. A lot of the Amiga games are in their original boxes, so maybe those might have some value. Things like Lemmings, Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge, Back to the Future II, Batman etc.
Anyway assuming you had all these diskettes, how would you store them if you wanted to preserve them? Or would you bin them? In my day job I build systems capable of storing hundreds of petabytes data, and here I am worrying about a bunch of floppy disks containing less than 1MB each!
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