The Null Device

The perils of digitisation: old computer data has a way of disappearing: (BBC News)

When they came to examine them, the archivists found that five percent of the older disks had become corrupted. The magnetic coating on the disks had simply succumbed to the slow erosion of time.

"Old disks are useless when the hardware is no longer available to read them," said archaeologist Keith Westcott... Finding a computer that will physically accept old-fashioned 5¼ inch or Amstrad-style 3 inch floppy disks is not easy.

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