Very nice. I'd frame them myself :)<div>Alas a PPG wave term won't help as it says they're for a fair light (I assume series I). </div><div><br><br>On Monday, 26 November 2012, Tony Scharf  wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div>We have some floppies this size at work we found in storage from back then.  To our surprise they were still readable.  The data on them was worthless now, but I was surprised. <br><br>It will all depend on how well they were stored.  If they were left in drawer and not shuffled about or subjected to a damp environment they could actually work. </div>

<div><br></div><div>Tony </div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 8:24 AM, Joost Schuttelaar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'joost@joostschuttelaar.nl');" target="_blank">joost@joostschuttelaar.nl</a>></span> wrote:<br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>On 26 nov. 2012, at 13:23, Andrew Robinson <<a href="javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'andrew@bml.co.uk');" target="_blank">andrew@bml.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br>


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> If so, what do you recon the chances are of being able to read anything off these floppies from 1984?<br>
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> <a href="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Frankie-Goes-To-Hollywood-original-Fairlight-floppy-discs-set-of-4-rare-genuine-/330834579322?pt=UK_Music_Music_Memorabilia_LE&hash=item4d07470f7a" target="_blank">http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Frankie-Goes-To-Hollywood-original-Fairlight-floppy-discs-set-of-4-rare-genuine-/330834579322?pt=UK_Music_Music_Memorabilia_LE&hash=item4d07470f7a</a><br>


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</div>Awesome :) With a normal drive, I think the chance is very low. But using special tools, since the data density is low, you might be able to read them? Nice project for a student perhaps :)<br>
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