Lost Andy Warhol art recovered from 1980's Amiga floppy disks | PCWorld

Lost Andy Warhol art recovered from 1980's Amiga floppy disks | PCWorld: "

Brad Chacos @BradChacos Apr 24, 2014" 

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Data recovery isn't a lost art, but it can find lost art. Case in point: The Andy Warhol Museum announced on Thursday that it has recovered a series of forgotten doodles, pictures, camera shots, notes, and more that belonged the iconic artist—works that have been trapped an Amiga 1000 computer's floppy disks since 1985. And it's all thanks to a YouTube video.

Commodore paid Warhol to help promote the Amiga 1000's graphical prowess. The Andy Warhol Museum had until this point managed to preserve the disks, but not the individual files themselves, as they were stored in "an obsolete format" that today's Amiga's emulators couldn't parse... http://www.pcworld.com/article/2146903/lost-andy-warhol-art-recovered-from-1980s-amiga-floppy-disks.html#tk.nl_today

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