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Rube Goldberg Floppy Disk Cleaner - Floppies were once the standard method of information exchange, but decades of sto... - https://hackaday.com/2024/08/02/rube-goldberg-floppy-disk-cleaner/ #retrocomputing #3.5floppydisk #amigafloppy #linearrail #archival

An odd looking apparatus for cleaning floppy disks. A neon green disk tray is suspended on metal linear rails in a vertical orientation. It can move back and forth through a set of cleaning heads and a set of drying fans. There are some control buttons on the font as well as a string of addressable LEDs and two speakers.

Hackaday · Aug 2, 2024Rube Goldberg Floppy Disk CleanerFloppies were once the standard method of information exchange, but decades of storage can render them unreadable, especially if mold sets in. [Rob Smith] wanted to clean some floppies in style and…

Aug 02, 2024, 08:15 AM··feed2toot

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