{"id":238,"date":"2016-09-13T18:29:49","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T08:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/digital-heritage\/?p=238"},"modified":"2016-09-13T18:29:49","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T08:59:49","slug":"spinning-up-the-first-8%e2%80%b3-disk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/digital-heritage\/2016\/09\/13\/spinning-up-the-first-8%e2%80%b3-disk\/","title":{"rendered":"Spinning up the first 8\u2033 disk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Proceeding with our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openpreservation.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/01\/an-8-floppy-disk-challenge\/\" target=\"_blank\">8\u2033 recovery project<\/a>: After a short while the 24V power supply and the cable adapter board arrived from the U.S. Both have power requirements and fit traditional PC power cable sockets. To actually connect the 8\u201d drive without external power supplies the machine should contain a 3.5\u201d floppy disk power connector and a standard molex power connector (for the 5.25\u201d and 8\u201d drives, the latter one via the voltage adaptor). Having wired all this (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openpreservation.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/02\/digital-obsolescence-reproducing-data-cables\/\" target=\"_blank\">using the cables crafted<\/a>), the setup for the 8\u2033 floppy reading experiment reached an initial working status.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/openpreservation.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/06\/spinning-up-the-first-8-disk\/\" target=\"_blank\">more&#8230;<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proceeding with our 8\u2033 recovery project: After a short while the 24V power supply and the cable adapter board arrived from the U.S. Both have power [&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-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - 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