Do you have 5.25" and 8" floppy disks that are spare, low-quality, degrading, or just generally in bad shape?
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Do you have 5.25" and 8" floppy disks that are spare, low-quality, degrading, or just generally in bad shape?
I'd like to take my floppy disk data recovery game to the next level. I have equipment, but there's no substitute for experience. Therefore I'm looking for loose collections of old floppy disks to practice on. I'm especially interested in working with disks where the binder affixing the media to the donut is starting to fail.
I'm in London; will pay shipping; can pick up disks around here as well. Boosts are appreciated!
@stepleton almost all my 3.5" floppies have gone bad. I have like two purchased game disks that still work on my Amiga.
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Do you have 5.25" and 8" floppy disks that are spare, low-quality, degrading, or just generally in bad shape?
I'd like to take my floppy disk data recovery game to the next level. I have equipment, but there's no substitute for experience. Therefore I'm looking for loose collections of old floppy disks to practice on. I'm especially interested in working with disks where the binder affixing the media to the donut is starting to fail.
I'm in London; will pay shipping; can pick up disks around here as well. Boosts are appreciated!
@stepleton Thats an interesting offer, I still have boxes of 5 1/4 disks from my youth, mostly copied video games, and I've tried imaging them but only had limited success. It'd be cool if I had some things which weren't in archive.org already which were recoverable.
I'm in the USA so I don't know if that is possible. I do have a spreadsheet printout where I captured all the filenames of the game disks from back in the day, but I don't know about the original file, it's probably on one of the data disks
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Do you have 5.25" and 8" floppy disks that are spare, low-quality, degrading, or just generally in bad shape?
I'd like to take my floppy disk data recovery game to the next level. I have equipment, but there's no substitute for experience. Therefore I'm looking for loose collections of old floppy disks to practice on. I'm especially interested in working with disks where the binder affixing the media to the donut is starting to fail.
I'm in London; will pay shipping; can pick up disks around here as well. Boosts are appreciated!
@stepleton A few years ago, I rescued all my old 5.25" floppies, except one - the one with all the good stuff on
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@stepleton I'll check if my stepdad still has the commodore floppies I inherited from my grandfather
@elfi @stepleton are you able to rescue C64 floppies as well?
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Do you have 5.25" and 8" floppy disks that are spare, low-quality, degrading, or just generally in bad shape?
I'd like to take my floppy disk data recovery game to the next level. I have equipment, but there's no substitute for experience. Therefore I'm looking for loose collections of old floppy disks to practice on. I'm especially interested in working with disks where the binder affixing the media to the donut is starting to fail.
I'm in London; will pay shipping; can pick up disks around here as well. Boosts are appreciated!
@stepleton oh hang on.
I think I still have some 5.25" disks that were recovered from (no joke) an abandoned level of a Welsh nylon factory.I pulled them out of a literal carpet of dust
I'll take a look later if you're interested?
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@stepleton oh hang on.
I think I still have some 5.25" disks that were recovered from (no joke) an abandoned level of a Welsh nylon factory.I pulled them out of a literal carpet of dust
I'll take a look later if you're interested?
@DosFox Sounds like a worthy challenge! I'd like to give them a go, but just remember that my objective is practice (so don't share them if they are valuable to you). Thanks!
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@stepleton oh hang on.
I think I still have some 5.25" disks that were recovered from (no joke) an abandoned level of a Welsh nylon factory.I pulled them out of a literal carpet of dust
I'll take a look later if you're interested?
@DosFox @stepleton now I want to see a game with a level in an abandoned Welsh nylon factory
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@elfi @stepleton are you able to rescue C64 floppies as well?
@moonshinebrigade @elfi I'd like to be, and I think I have pretty good odds of being able to do it, but I'm looking for disks to practice on --- so I wouldn't want to try with anything too precious!
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@DosFox Sounds like a worthy challenge! I'd like to give them a go, but just remember that my objective is practice (so don't share them if they are valuable to you). Thanks!
@stepleton I'll see if I still have them!
I'm not terribly attached them - there is a chance I've already thrown them out
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@DosFox @stepleton now I want to see a game with a level in an abandoned Welsh nylon factory
@WillFlux @stepleton there's a good chance you may have already seen it before - it was used as a filming location for doctor who!
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Do you have 5.25" and 8" floppy disks that are spare, low-quality, degrading, or just generally in bad shape?
I'd like to take my floppy disk data recovery game to the next level. I have equipment, but there's no substitute for experience. Therefore I'm looking for loose collections of old floppy disks to practice on. I'm especially interested in working with disks where the binder affixing the media to the donut is starting to fail.
I'm in London; will pay shipping; can pick up disks around here as well. Boosts are appreciated!
If you get into the "really weird old floppy formats" this may come handy:
GitHub - Datamuseum-DK/FloppyTools: Tools for preservation of floppy disks
Tools for preservation of floppy disks. Contribute to Datamuseum-DK/FloppyTools development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHub (github.com)
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Do you have 5.25" and 8" floppy disks that are spare, low-quality, degrading, or just generally in bad shape?
I'd like to take my floppy disk data recovery game to the next level. I have equipment, but there's no substitute for experience. Therefore I'm looking for loose collections of old floppy disks to practice on. I'm especially interested in working with disks where the binder affixing the media to the donut is starting to fail.
I'm in London; will pay shipping; can pick up disks around here as well. Boosts are appreciated!
@stepleton I don't know if this would be any help, but I just accidentally bought some blank 8" ds/dd disks when I intended to buy 5.25 inch disks. I could send them to you if you're interested.
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@stepleton I don't know if this would be any help, but I just accidentally bought some blank 8" ds/dd disks when I intended to buy 5.25 inch disks. I could send them to you if you're interested.
@scunneen I'd feel a little foolish turning away blank 8" disks! But I'm in London and it seems like shipping to the UK could be expensive. How many did you get?
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@scunneen I'd feel a little foolish turning away blank 8" disks! But I'm in London and it seems like shipping to the UK could be expensive. How many did you get?
@stepleton Only 4. They come with their original IBM box.
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@WillFlux @stepleton there's a good chance you may have already seen it before - it was used as a filming location for doctor who!
@stepleton ahhh sorry to say I misremembered - unfortunately they're all 3.5"!
Good ol' fallible human memory
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@scunneen I'd feel a little foolish turning away blank 8" disks! But I'm in London and it seems like shipping to the UK could be expensive. How many did you get?
@stepleton It looks like sending the box would be very expensive but if I just sent the disks in a large envelope with little/no padding it would cost $10.
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Do you have 5.25" and 8" floppy disks that are spare, low-quality, degrading, or just generally in bad shape?
I'd like to take my floppy disk data recovery game to the next level. I have equipment, but there's no substitute for experience. Therefore I'm looking for loose collections of old floppy disks to practice on. I'm especially interested in working with disks where the binder affixing the media to the donut is starting to fail.
I'm in London; will pay shipping; can pick up disks around here as well. Boosts are appreciated!
Sorry, I chopped up my old floppies and made recorder mutes and laptop camera covers.
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@stepleton It looks like sending the box would be very expensive but if I just sent the disks in a large envelope with little/no padding it would cost $10.
@scunneen Well, I guess I won't pass that up
I'll DM you an address... -
Do you have 5.25" and 8" floppy disks that are spare, low-quality, degrading, or just generally in bad shape?
I'd like to take my floppy disk data recovery game to the next level. I have equipment, but there's no substitute for experience. Therefore I'm looking for loose collections of old floppy disks to practice on. I'm especially interested in working with disks where the binder affixing the media to the donut is starting to fail.
I'm in London; will pay shipping; can pick up disks around here as well. Boosts are appreciated!
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Do you have 5.25" and 8" floppy disks that are spare, low-quality, degrading, or just generally in bad shape?
I'd like to take my floppy disk data recovery game to the next level. I have equipment, but there's no substitute for experience. Therefore I'm looking for loose collections of old floppy disks to practice on. I'm especially interested in working with disks where the binder affixing the media to the donut is starting to fail.
I'm in London; will pay shipping; can pick up disks around here as well. Boosts are appreciated!
@stepleton might be worth asking https://www.computinghistory.org.uk
️ can become an ally for your time-machine-project.