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The archivist preserving decaying floppy disks

beSpacific – Accurate, Focused Research on Law, Technology and … February 26, 2026
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PopSci – It’s a race against time (and magnetic decay) to preserve decades of cultural history stored on obsolete hardware: “Few nostalgic artifacts capture the spirit of the early personal computing era as clearly as the humble floppy disk. Introduced in the early 1970s, these chunky rectangles became the default way to store and transfer ...

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