Somewhat amusing Grauniad article on retrieving old digital material

[Liam Proven]

Germaine Greer's archive: digging up digital treasure from the floppy disks

Archivists trying to preserve material stored in obsolete formats face
a mighty challenge in retrieving decades of work by the Australian
writer and feminist

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/aug/05/germaine-greer-archive-digital-treasure-floppy-disks

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