MistyAnd this is why you don’t store floppies next to acidic paper.
bcj@misty good to know the floppy is backed up tho
@bcj Digital preservation via rubbings
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Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️@foone Right??
When it was sent to me, all the floppies had been relocated to an acid-free paper sleeve - I guess a previous owner had noticed and knew what to do. But I guess they still spent a couple decades nestled up to the manual.
DosFox@misty why did my brain instantly think of "that time Kodak accidentally found out about Atomic Bomb testing"
groxx@misty on the third decade, they rise again?
Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦
Clara@misty Ok, real talk, with all the nasty shit acidic paper does (ruins coins, apparently ruins floppys), why do we still use it?
@rallias For context, the floppies were fine - it's the paper that degraded from being in contact with the floppy's plastic.
But also, we don't use it as often anymore! Lower-quality acidic paper was far more common up until the 80s/early 90s. Acidic paper is cheaper but a lot stuff uses decent-quality paper now.
@misty I suppose that's fair, I guess I felt the need to vent considering that multiple hobbies that I have specifically caution against using acidic paper.
Thorsted@misty That is how we used to duplicate floppies back in the day. ;)
Rue Mohr@misty is there any left on the floppy media?
@RueNahcMohr The disks themselves were perfectly fine - I was able to get perfect reads of all of them.
@misty Ok, I presume it was an FeO2 based disk? not CrO2?
Grady Haynes@misty The Floppy of Turin
gamedev.lgbt/@psilocervine@misty shroud of turin.bat
🍉 Melon 🍉@misty an incredibly slow-exposure contact photograph...
Alex P. 👹@misty
pirate treasure!!
pirate treasure!!
martin_fff@misty "The Shroud of Turing Test"
bituur esztreym@misty
visual effect has something like the debuts of photography in it. (not only the sepia)
visual effect has something like the debuts of photography in it. (not only the sepia)
Brian Danger Hicks@misty Out: Shroud of Turin
In: Shroud of Turing
In: Shroud of Turing
Chasnah@misty previously unseen section of the Shroud of Turin shows the floppy that Jesus stored all his midis on.
IvanDSM@misty It... kinda looks beautiful...
Brian Turner 🐝@misty well that's one way to make a disk image
Mike Sharpe Writer@misty A ghost floppy?
meriksson@misty So thats how shadow copies in Windows work.