Request for Floppies 💾 @ 39C3 

Heya, do you have any floppy disks with old data? Bring me those floppies to #39C3 !

I can show you my project #RecoveryWhiskers and see if I can recover data from them (maybe even on-site).

also if someone has 2.88mb disks: I need a few (those can be empty) to test/recover a smashed drive I am getting

re: Request for Floppies 💾 @ 39C3 

@JennyFluff can it do Mac formats? I have a ton of old floppies from my uncle that may or may not work that came with his Macintosh 128K and I'd love to be able to just rip all of those to a hard drive

re: Request for Floppies 💾 @ 39C3 

@noiob yes please. I don't know if I will be able to read them at congress yet, but I am interested in them (and any weird format)

re: Request for Floppies 💾 @ 39C3 

@JennyFluff I would rather not carry two long boxes of floppies on a train anyways lol. I could bring some samples though

re: Request for Floppies 💾 @ 39C3 

@noiob maybe ship them to me?

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re: Request for Floppies 💾 @ 39C3 

@JennyFluff they're at my parents' place right now but I'm sure I can figure something out. Might be easiest to just pack them in a backpack and deliver them myself ^^

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