Stewart RussellHow worried should I be that there's a 5ยผ" disk poking up through the ground at the local cemetery?
Nick@scruss Iโm guessing that this is the start of a horror movie called Bad Memory.
@scruss Actually Dead Media is excellent.
DavidOBSOLESCENCE
Matt Mascarenhas
Ahimsa
Steve's Place@ahimsa_pdx @Nickiquote @scruss Not sure how worried you should be yet. It depends on what is on the haunted media. I've got a 5 1/4" drive.
ranjit
Jake in the desert@scruss ghost computing, eh. So we have to do this stuff even after we die? Great. hahaha
Seรกn Fenian@scruss "BLOOOOOOOCCCCKKKSSSS......."
Willow (she/her)@scruss I feel like I've seen this episode... Buffy? I think?
i. celeste aurora 
[witchzard]@scruss That's ok, no worries, that's their natural habitat nowadays.
But if an 8" one shows up, please urgently call the local branch of Men in Black, at (555) 6666-666
Ann Antidote (n.p.) ๐๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธโพ๏ธ๐พ๐๐@scruss many years ago my grandmother was buried with her repository of handwritten love letters, and the secrets within. I think - maybe somebody was buried with their hard disk -this might be the 40 years fast forward. Not sure if the secrets are safe.
KrazyKat@scruss ๐ฑ๐๐
Bill Taroli 
@scruss Keep digging! You might find ET game cartridges and Lisa computers! #RetroComputing
groff ๐บ๐ฆ
Inverse Phase
Furbland's Very Cool Mastodonโข@scruss whatโs on it?
@GroupNebula563 dirt, by the looks of it
@scruss okay, I walked right into that one :P
Leo (he/him) ๐บ๐ฆ@scruss That is not dead which can eternal lie
And with strange aeons even death may demagnetise
And with strange aeons even death may demagnetise
Michael
jandi@scruss Not worrying, the underworld runs on OS/2.... and will, forever.
Joe Cooper ๐บ๐ฆ ๐@scruss you're part of something bigger now. Gotta find a compute that can read it and figure out the clues.
GeePawHill@scruss Prolly about a 7 on the 10-point scale.
Paul Hart@scruss buried with their ASCII art porn?
๏ฝก๏พ๏ฝฅ\m\(๏ผะ๏ผ๏ผ)/m/๏ฝฅ๏พ๏ฝก@scruss you can probably still read it man those that's from the era where things were made good
Ben S.@scruss (Commodore) PET Cemetery
Mira@scruss The necromancers are raising dead programmers to get security updates for old gov systems? Or maybe vulns
Ike Seblon@scruss Scareware
Jonty Wareing@scruss At least it's not zombIDE
Dr Andrew A. Adams #FBPE ๐ถ@a_cubed I *think* I saw what you did there ...
Michael Wolf@scruss It Wants To Be Read. Great flick
Martin@scruss Wha wha what? So weird!
@mcourcel yeah, it's in the cemetery across Kennedy Road from your house
Purple 
@scruss I wonder how much of it might be recoverable... would be curious what it originally contained lol
RossS@scruss Disc Dracula?
CheapPontoon@scruss
A hand from the grave pushes the disk upward. Hey man, erase my porn OK?
A hand from the grave pushes the disk upward. Hey man, erase my porn OK?
D. G. MarshallBring out your dead!
crispy branzino โญ (sold out forever)@scruss this is the baseplate for a headstone
Bruce Heerssen 
@scruss
I own a shotgun and I am NOT going back! Zombie media needs to stay the hell away.
I own a shotgun and I am NOT going back! Zombie media needs to stay the hell away.
Urban Hermit@scruss DISK RECOVERY ERROR. THIS PARTITION IS DEAD. WOULD YOU LIKE TO REFORMAT?
peaoPerdido@scruss a zombie computer virus
Andy Linton ๐ฎ๐ช 
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@scruss Has it been encrypted?
Rob Christopher@scruss Cronenberg's THE STROUDS.
vxo@scruss
Oh boy. This seems like a Plot Point
Oh boy. This seems like a Plot Point
Joana de Castro Arnaud@scruss The grave was too shallow.
๐บ๐ธ ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ฑ ๐ง ๐ฅฆ@scruss Plug it in and see what is on it.
Chuck@scruss Well the bad news is you have summoned a daemon, the good news is it's swapped out so it hasn't paged into this dimension.
Marcos Dione@ChuckMcManis @scruss swap on floppies, now that's a thought...
Sparky@scruss I have read enough creepypasta to know that it likely has some sort of game on there, complete with an ominously-named savefile and both text and graphics that gradually deviate from the original.
Brad Martin
Ed Neal@scruss Not much. It's just a data back-up.
Metin Seven ๐จ@scruss Undoubtedly a zombie game.
David P