Looks Good, Reads Bad: Imaging 5–25-Inch Floppy Disks on Mismatched Drives
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The article discusses the challenges of imaging 5.25-inch floppy disks on mismatched drives, highlighting the complexities of digital preservation, with the single comment reflecting on the difficulties of reading old storage media.
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2 months ago
Seems to be hosted on AWS - which is suffering some sort of outage at the moment that also effects medium.com :-(
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