Lost artworks by Andy Warhol found on 80s-era FLOPPY DISKS

Blast from the past!

[tangor]

The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania has recovered a trove of previously unknown works by the pop-art pioneer from an unexpected, yet suitably modern source: a set of Commodore Amiga floppy disks.

The artworks date back to 1985, when Commodore commissioned Warhol to help demonstrate the graphics capabilities of its latest computer system, which far outstripped those of most PCs of the time.

[theregister.co.uk...]
For those of us who have been around since the IBM Selectric Typewriter, it is a trip down memory lane for floppy disks! L)

[engine]

Treasure in those disks, eh!

I just found several boxes full of 3.5-inch floppy disks (relatively recent technology, of course) and realised I no longer have a computer capable of reading the data. I very much doubt there's anything interesting on them.

[tangor]

With USB floppy disk units near dirt cheap, it wouldn't take much to find out. (Been there, done that... found only one file I had forgotten and was glad to find again).

[engine]

I didn't use the floppy disks for interesting files, only backups. Can you imagine how many disks I ended up using when backing up. lol I'm not even sure i have the backup program any longer.
Tape drives became more affordable, after a while, saving me quite some time swapping disks.

Sadly, Andy Warhol never used my old PC.

[RhinoFish]

100 years from now...
instead of diving offshore for gold discs...
they'll be diving into landfills for magnetic discs.