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When archiving those 1000's of floppies becomes a pain
« on: March 31, 2012, 02:58:02 PM »
Found this on Hack-A-Day...


http://hackaday.com/2012/03/31/floppy-autoloader-takes-the-pain-out-of-archiving-5000-amiga-disks/


Pretty cool!  but dunno how anyone can collect 5000 floppies... I only managed 1500 :)
 

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Re: When archiving those 1000's of floppies becomes a pain
« Reply #1 on: March 31, 2012, 03:11:07 PM »
awesome! and even photographs the disk. Where can I buy one ? :)
 

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Re: When archiving those 1000's of floppies becomes a pain
« Reply #2 on: March 31, 2012, 03:20:56 PM »
that is pretty awesome. And uses and Arduino too :)

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Re: When archiving those 1000's of floppies becomes a pain
« Reply #3 on: March 31, 2012, 04:03:52 PM »
That's really, really slick.
 

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Re: When archiving those 1000's of floppies becomes a pain
« Reply #4 on: March 31, 2012, 05:19:48 PM »
5000 floppies? Yikes!
 

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Re: When archiving those 1000's of floppies becomes a pain
« Reply #5 on: March 31, 2012, 05:30:32 PM »
Pyromania has over 1200 disks that still have not been archived.
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Re: When archiving those 1000's of floppies becomes a pain
« Reply #6 on: March 31, 2012, 07:33:14 PM »
Quote from: Transition;686274
Pyromania has over 1200 disks that still have not been archived.


Quick lets build him one before he turns into a zombie!