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Ozzy Dweller has about 5,000 old 3.5 inch floppy disks. He'd like to back them up, but doing so manually, he found, was just too tedious. So he built a machine that loads them into a computer, copies them, then ejects them onto the floor.
Link -via Walyou
For that sweet moment when he claims all his free AOL hours.
Actually I still have several hundred floppies with photos taken from my Sony Mavica (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Mavica) and I really need to get them transferred to hard disk but don't really have time and this machine would be perfect for it.
I just wonder how many read errors he's getting...
Yes, floppy disks and drives are outdated and unreliable but it's a chore to archive all that data you've stored over the last decade. I think it's brilliant.