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 Hmm, I've got a pile of 8" sitting in a box on the top shelf, not sure of the state or content; I'd be happy to send them to a good home. DM me where you want them.
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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 Are BBC Micro discs in scope?
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@stepleton Are BBC Micro discs in scope?
@DamonHD Absolutely! I'll be making flux recordings in any case, using a Greaseweazle or an Applesauce controller.
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@stepleton Fascinating. I think I’ve thrown my 5 1/4 disks away sometime in the '90s, but it’s great that you are (trying to?) help people who still have data on those disks.
@Mpwg yes, that's the idea! In fact there is a a data recovery effort I'm working towards where I'd like to be at the top of my game.
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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 bet your house smells AMAZING.
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@stepleton I am currently sorting through probably 2,000 1.2MB and 2.4MB (5.25”) diskettes looking for good ones for reuse. I will have plenty of “trash” diskettes as part of the process, you’re welcome to as many as you want when I’m done. Favoriting this post so I can find it again.
@jgeorge @stepleton Why don't you bookmark it?
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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 Bookmarked. I may well have; and I may well be exceedingly grateful to recover some long lost stuff.
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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!
I'm in the U.S. and certain I have some in storage, which I can't easily get to right away. But happy to help if you can wait. LMK
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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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