2024-07-06 Hacker News Top Articles and Its Summaries
1. Preserving a floppy disk with a logic analyzer and a serial cable Total comment counts : 8 Summary The author of this article discusses their interest in preserving floppy disks and mentions that they already have the necessary hardware, a Saleae Logic 8 logic analyzer, to capture the low-level data from the disks. They explain that unlike modern storage devices, floppy drives operate at a more low-level interface and use encoding schemes to represent the data stored on the disks....