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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 supplies the machine should contain a 3.5” floppy disk power connector and […]

By Dirk von Suchodoletz, posted in Dirk von Suchodoletz's Blog

6th Sep 2016  10:33 AM  3094 Reads  No comments

An 8″ Floppy Disk Challenge

A while ago the digital preservation team of the professorship in communication systems got involved in Digital Archaeology and Forensics of some old floppy disks of unknown origin. It was a cooperation with The Archives NZ being asked to identify the content of 5.25” disks. The hardware part – reading the disks and producing images […]

By Dirk von Suchodoletz, posted in Dirk von Suchodoletz's Blog

1st Sep 2016  1:17 PM  4162 Reads  No comments