[HN Gopher] The archivist preserving decaying floppy disks
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       The archivist preserving decaying floppy disks
        
       Author : Brajeshwar
       Score  : 28 points
       Date   : 2026-02-25 15:28 UTC (3 days ago)
        
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       | ChrisArchitect wrote:
       | Some previous coverage:
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       | Oct 2025 _The people rescuing forgotten knowledge trapped on old
       | floppy disks_
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       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45545017
        
       | jmclnx wrote:
       | This got me playing with an old 3.5" USB Diskette Drive I got
       | from work on NetBSD. It works great. All I need is one of those
       | for 5.25 diskettes :)
       | 
       | A long time ago I had to get a file off of a 3.5" diskette that
       | was corrupted. Linux would panic but NetBSD just came out with
       | the rump kernel. So I installed NetBSD and used rump. Rump
       | crashed a few times but the system stayed up. So after a few
       | tries I got about 80 - 90% of the document.
       | 
       | I miss the convenience and cheapness of diskettes.
        
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