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While cleaning a storage room, our staff found this tape containing #UNIX v4 from Bell Labs, circa 1973
Apparently no other complete copies are known to exist: https://gunkies.org/wiki/UNIX_Fourth_Edition
We have arranged to deliver it to the Computer History Museum
#retrocomputing
I recently dug up my father’s floppy disks. Stored in a dark dry attic. Each one contained about 10 photos of him on holidays and my birthday when i was 7. I had about 10 usable disks.
The disks are at least 25 years old. He died about 20 years ago.
It is true. Not all photos were saved but the disks held op really well!
The thing about floppies is they were mass produced with pressure to be the cheapest on the market for consumers. The newer the floppy, the more shit quailty it is and less likely to retain data. Tapes meant for enterprise storage meant for long term backups will be high quailty and has a pretty good chance of lasting decades.
Yeah if climate controlled they last a surprisingly long time. I’ve had 20-30 year old disks read ok. Honestly at this point I cant find a drive anywhere.
I don’t think magnetic storage lasts that long. Even floppy disks become unreadable after sitting for 10 years in a box.
No they do not. Where did you get that piece of crap info from?
Most likely they’re thinking of VHS and audio tapes.
Where do people store these things? In a swamp?
From my box of floppy disks that where sitting in shelf since ~2000.
Good for you, I can find 40 year old disks that read fine.
Were they sitting next to a bookshelf speaker?
Almost all my mid eighties floppies still work…
Magnetic tape can last multiple decades. There’s no telling whether THIS magnetic tape lasted that long, but the medium is pretty hardy.
Keep 'em in a salt mine.
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I recently dug up my father’s floppy disks. Stored in a dark dry attic. Each one contained about 10 photos of him on holidays and my birthday when i was 7. I had about 10 usable disks.
The disks are at least 25 years old. He died about 20 years ago.
It is true. Not all photos were saved but the disks held op really well!
The thing about floppies is they were mass produced with pressure to be the cheapest on the market for consumers. The newer the floppy, the more shit quailty it is and less likely to retain data. Tapes meant for enterprise storage meant for long term backups will be high quailty and has a pretty good chance of lasting decades.
Yeah if climate controlled they last a surprisingly long time. I’ve had 20-30 year old disks read ok. Honestly at this point I cant find a drive anywhere.