Floppy Autoloader Automatically Archives Thousands of Floppies

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Published on Mon, 02 Apr 2012 13:00:46 GMT Indexed on 2012/04/02 17:33 UTC
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The thought of hand loading 5,000 floppy disks is more than enough to drive an inventive geek to create a better alternative–like this automated floppy disk archiver.

DwellerTunes has several crates of floppy disks that contain old Amiga software and related material, personal programming projects, personal documents, and more. Realistically there’s no way he could devout time to hand loading and archiving thousands upon thousands of floppy disks so he built a automatic loader that accepts stacks of several hundred floppy disks at time. The loader not only loads and archives the floppy disks, but it photographs the label of each disk so that each archive includes a picture of the original label.

Watch the video above to see it in action and then hit up the link below for more information.

Converting All My Amiga Disks [DwellerTunes via Make]

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