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Andy Warhol art recovered from Amiga computer

Very cool - though I have to disagree with "complicated recovery process" - unless the floppies were damaged, I mean. Basically any number of us with an Amiga and Deluxe Paint could've likely recovered these :)
 
This was mentioned on Slashdot the other day. Slashdot made it sound like they used some fancy magnetic imaging stuff. When actually all they did was shove it in a regular old floppy drive attached to a Kryoflush.
 
Seems like being able to step with half track accuracy on a HD mechanism while reading DD disks might be useful in a recovery process compared to a regular DD drive on the real hardware.
 
Well, it all depends on who's spinning the tale and how technical they want to make it sound. If they "had" to use a kryoflux then quite possibly the disks weren't readable or considered corrupt hence the more technical term of using magnetic flux patterns to restore the data vs just saying they used a disk imaging tool. Could also be because they didn't have a working Amiga 1000 around lol.

Uh.." but the other images on the disks had been inaccessible due to their obsolete format, since entering the collection in 1994" ok nevermind.
 
Am I the only one more interested in the Kickstarts they dumped? I saw mention of at least Kickstart 26.1 and 26.7.
 
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