![]() ![]() I selected the disk image of a 3.5-inch floppy disk that read “Icon Editor” with no date and no brand name. Spanning decades, I recognized that the Atari floppy disks would include a variety of formats requiring digital detective work. ![]() (If you’re not familiar with the term “disk image,” it’s a opens in a new windowcomputer file containing the contents and structure of a disk opens in a new windowvolume or an entire opens in a new windowdata storage device, such as a floppy disk.) Recently, I decided to dig into the Atari Coin-Op Division Corporate Records (1969–2002) from The Strong’s Brian Sutton-Smith Library and Archives of Play. In some opens in a new windowcases, the Kryoflux was a useful tool to capture old games and development materials but, with more than 1,500 floppy disk images in our holdings, there’s still much to be done. Reading a floppy disk in the 21st century was the first step necessary to preserve hundreds of floppy disks in The Strong’s archival collections. Opens in a new window In 2018, The Strong embarked on a opens in a new windowproject to digitize floppy disks using a device called the Kryoflux to capture the data stored on 3.5- and 5.25-inch floppy disks.
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