[masfuerte]

I had more than a hundred 5.25" floppies from the 1980s and I successfully recovered all but two of them thirty years later. It's definitely worth a try.

[fzzzy]

Same, I had several hundred 3.5" floppies from the 80s and they were all fine when I ripped them. I think double density might be more reliable than high density.

[pentaphobe]

That's super impressive, and very reassuring!

What sort of memories did you find? (if you don't mind sharing)

Also: any tips for recovery? I'm so far assuming I'll just get them nice and cool, then do multiple raw read passes so I can then choose the individual bits which are the same across most passes

[masfuerte]

Mostly it was loads of 6502 software I wrote when I was a kid, and also some high school projects I did. It was fun to look through it.

The disks that worked just worked! I did try multiple passes on the two that didn't, but that didn't help.

[pentaphobe]

Oh that woulda been a neat bit of time travelling, glad it worked out!

I'm quietly hoping I end up finding a bunch of my old x86 assembler projects in these discs (well - excited and a little scared... perhaps better through the rosy glasses of nostalgia)