{"id":872,"date":"2012-06-11T13:31:43","date_gmt":"2012-06-11T18:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=872"},"modified":"2012-06-11T13:44:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-11T18:44:00","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-floppy-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/872\/retro-scan-of-the-week-floppy-trouble","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Polaroid Data Recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/polaroid_perfectdata_disks_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/polaroid_perfectdata_disks_small.jpg\" alt=\"Polaroid PerfectData Disks ad -  1985\" class=\"centered\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>A similar phrase adorns a plaque inside the base of the Statue of Liberty.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In this ad for Polaroid PerfectData disks, Polaroid mentions a free data recovery service for damaged floppies.  I wonder what tools they used to recover the data; that would be very interesting to look into.  Also, I wonder whether anyone ever took Polaroid up on the company&#8217;s offer to rescue their data.  If anyone out there knows more about this, by all means, leave a comment.<\/p>\n<p>Make sure you take note of the &#8220;20-year guarantee&#8221; mentioned in this ad &#8212; then read <a href=\"http:\/\/technologizer.com\/2012\/01\/23\/why-history-needs-software-piracy\/\" target=\"_blank\">Why History Needs Software Piracy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From TIME, May 6th, 1985, p.B3 ]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong> What&#8217;s the worst thing that has ever happened to your computer storage media?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A similar phrase adorns a plaque inside the base of the Statue of Liberty. In this ad for Polaroid PerfectData disks, Polaroid mentions a free data recovery service for damaged floppies. I wonder what tools they used to recover the data; that would be very interesting to look into. Also, I wonder whether anyone ever [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,27,26,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}