{"id":229,"date":"2016-09-04T00:13:27","date_gmt":"2016-09-03T14:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/digital-heritage\/?p=229"},"modified":"2016-09-04T00:13:27","modified_gmt":"2016-09-03T14:43:27","slug":"an-8%e2%80%b3-floppy-disk-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/digital-heritage\/2016\/09\/04\/an-8%e2%80%b3-floppy-disk-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"An 8\u2033 Floppy Disk Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The university archive in Freiburg recently received a set of 8\u201d floppy disks which might contain interesting case and research data. The hand-over procedure did not generate much valuable information, but just a stack of those disks with some additional paper stuck in the disk sleeves. The floppies in question are dating from the early\/mid 1980s. The information about them is rather scant. The floppy labels of the various brands (e.g. BASF and HP manufactured a couple of disks) do not provide any information on the (operating) system used to create them or on the formatting.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/openpreservation.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/01\/an-8-floppy-disk-challenge\/\" target=\"_blank\">[more &#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The university archive in Freiburg recently received a set of 8\u201d floppy disks which might contain interesting case and research data. The hand-over procedure did not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/digital-heritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/digital-heritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/digital-heritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/digital-heritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/digital-heritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/digital-heritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/digital-heritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/digital-heritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/digital-heritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}