Be warned, I’m going to ramble on slightly more than usual as I go on a meandering stroll down Nostalgia Avenue. I’ll cover the technical details of the “How” as per my usual Amiga blog posts but I want to talk a little more about the “Why” aspect. Here’s the first of my disk boxes now, filling up quite nicely with little 3.5” slices of nostalgia after a few day’s worth of converting my ADF collection back into their original physical form: And now, apart from a “save icon” meme, it’s gone.įor various reasons (mostly because I’ve just become a Dad!) I’ve been on quite the reminiscence trip recently and I decided to get reacquainted with this old and quirky relic of my past. It was something from childhood and my early career that was everywhere: Scattered through my school bags, coat pockets and occasionally - if I was feeling organised - a disk box. The floppy disk was one of those rare things that became part of my everyday life like my keys or school pencil-case. I hadn’t thought about or used floppy disks for around 20 odd years now, at some point I must have copied my last disk but I honestly can’t remember what it was or when. A few months ago, reading the news about Linux dropping support for floppy disks set off a whole bunch of memories and emotions around this long obsolete and “dead” data storage format.
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