<story><title>Andy Warhol&apos;s lost Amiga art found</title><url>https://dfarq.homeip.net/andy-warhols-lost-amiga-art-found/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cellularmitosis</author><text>&amp;gt; and a signed floppy disk containing eight images that Andy Warhol created that day. He said he’s had them on display in his home for about 39 years.&lt;p&gt;Shout out to the longevity of floppy disks as a storage medium.  I was quite disappointed when I discovered many of my writable CD&amp;#x27;s started failing at the 15 to 20 year mark.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TacticalCoder</author><text>&amp;gt; Shout out to the longevity of floppy disks as a storage medium.&lt;p&gt;Last I checked (Covid) about 2&amp;#x2F;3rd of my 5&amp;quot;1&amp;#x2F;4 Commodore 64 floppy disks were still working (they had to be about 35 y&amp;#x2F;o when I tried in 2020). But the ones working won&amp;#x27;t last much longer.</text></comment>
<story><title>Andy Warhol&apos;s lost Amiga art found</title><url>https://dfarq.homeip.net/andy-warhols-lost-amiga-art-found/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cellularmitosis</author><text>&amp;gt; and a signed floppy disk containing eight images that Andy Warhol created that day. He said he’s had them on display in his home for about 39 years.&lt;p&gt;Shout out to the longevity of floppy disks as a storage medium.  I was quite disappointed when I discovered many of my writable CD&amp;#x27;s started failing at the 15 to 20 year mark.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jandrese</author><text>I stumbled across a DVD-RW last weekend and popped it in a drive to see if the files were still readable.  I had read that for a -RW drive you shouldn&amp;#x27;t expect more than a few years, maybe a decade before it decays so I was not hopeful.  However, the disc was fully readable and the checksums all came back clean even though it was burned in 2003.</text></comment>