Floppy Disk Museum
Museum of Obsolete Media
The Museum of Obsolete Media collection was started in 2006, and now comprises over 800 unique media formats covering audio, video, data and film with many more identified that have yet to be collected.1
In 2013 the Museum website was launched as a unique virtual museum, preserving the memory of those objects that once held our memories.
Floppy Disk Collection
Floppy disks (or diskettes) are magnetic disk data storage formats, usually composed of a thin, flexible disk sealed in a rectangular plastic carrier. In many cases the carrier is rigid, and the word floppy refers to the disc inside. Capacities can range from just a few KB (such as the Olivetti minidisc, with an initial capacity of 3 KB) to 750 KB for the largest capacity Zip disk.
The floppy disk collection is part of the Museum of Obsolete Media, which comprises over 800 media formats spanning audio, data, film and video storage media. This microsite is designed to run from a 3.5-inch High Density microfloppy and is self-contained, so requires no internet connection.
Curator: Jason Curtis
Remind me of the NASA tapes that included the original moon walk. The tapes were in an obsolete digital recording of telemetry. NASA had to locate a recorder in Australia to refurbish to process the original data. And they suffered huge data losses when due to budget issues, re-used old tapes instead of archiving them.
Printed books on paper might be the only thing that lasts for a very long time.
This is so beautifully poignant.