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Fossil Data Fossilized on 8" IBM Floppies
🕑 Added 2020-02-03 02:52:12 +0000 UTCWe are helping an international team of Paleobotanists to retrieve data from IBM 360-era 8" floppy diskettes. It contains a large amount of coded digital information about plant fossils from the Carboniferous, over 300 million years ago.
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Here is a bit of background on the 8" floppies and how they changed data entry https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fg_YOpnmw3Y
Amazing thing to read old data from 8" floppies. I have an original 8" IBM Disk Drive from System/34 and in a one day in future need to found original schematics and pinout to read data from old Microcode IBM disks :P
