{"id":11406,"date":"2024-07-09T22:10:45","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T05:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=11406"},"modified":"2025-11-03T16:33:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T23:33:14","slug":"preserving-floppy-disks-by-reading-raw-flux-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=11406","title":{"rendered":"Preserving Floppy disks by reading raw flux data"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.techtangents.net\/wiki\/Floppy_Disk_Imaging\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/wiki.techtangents.net\/wiki\/Floppy_Disk_Imaging\">Tech Tangents talks about how preservationists use tools like GreaseWeasle<\/a> to back up disks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UxsRpMdmlGo?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It helped me a lot when <a href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=7234\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=7234\">learning how to back up and write my own disks<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Update: <a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2023\/09\/15\/preserving-floppy-disks\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2023\/09\/15\/preserving-floppy-disks\/\">Using a Greaseweasle and a 5.25&#8243; floppy drive<\/a> turned out to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/posts\/78074244\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">critical evidence\/court records on a nearly 50-year-old floppy disk<\/a>\u00a0last written to in 1993 using a DEC PDP-11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tech Tangents talks about how preservationists use tools like GreaseWeasle to back up disks. It helped me a lot when learning how to back up and write my own disks. Update: Using a Greaseweasle and a 5.25&#8243; floppy drive turned out to be critical evidence\/court records on a nearly 50-year-old floppy disk\u00a0last written to in 1993 using a DEC PDP-11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool","category-retro-computing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-2XY","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11406"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15579,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11406\/revisions\/15579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}