8″ Disk Recovery: The continuing story

The last chapters in the 8″ disk recovery project have been posted on Open Preservation Foundation’s website. 8″ Disk Recovery: Kryoflux and Catweasel Hovering just above the Magnetic Flux Counting Ones and Zeros 8 inch Disks HP9845 endeavour – Success at Last This...

The Investigator Transformed/Game On

The Investigator Transformed exhibition and book is a celebration of 50 years of Flinders University. One of the featured stories is about the Computer Archaeology Lab and the Play It Again project. Read and watch the video in the “Game On” article.

Spinning up the first 8″ disk

Proceeding with our 8″ recovery project: After a short while the 24V power supply and the cable adapter board arrived from the U.S. Both have power requirements and fit traditional PC power cable sockets. To actually connect the 8” drive without external power...

An 8″ Floppy Disk Challenge

The university archive in Freiburg recently received a set of 8” floppy disks which might contain interesting case and research data. The hand-over procedure did not generate much valuable information, but just a stack of those disks with some additional paper stuck...