2016-01-05

200 floppy disks belonging to Star Trek's creator have been recovered and could offer some surprises | VentureBeat | OffBeat | by Paul Sawers

200 floppy disks belonging to Star Trek's creator have been recovered and could offer some surprises | VentureBeat | OffBeat | by Paul Sawers Thought to date from the 1980s, the 5.25-inch disks store around 160KB of data each, and DriveSaver said its engineers spent around three months working on a way to access the information contained on the floppies, which basically involved creating software that could read the disks.
Amazing they can still find engineers who understand the tech. I'm sure they are Javascript coders.