On October 9, Cambridge University Library opened its doors to anyone with an old floppy disk and a question: data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/stories/floppy-disk-funding” data-url=”https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/stories/floppy-disk-funding” target=”_blank” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none”>What’s on here? The public “Copy that Floppy” session marked the launch of Future Nostalgia, a year-long project dedicated to rescuing data from obsolete magnetic media before time and oxide decay make it impossible.
The idea of a modern conservation lab helping people read their ancient WordPerfect documents or lost BASIC code might seem quaint or cute, but the initiative is rooted in…
