https://blog.usedbytes.com/tags/next/ Recent content in NeXT on usedbytes:Blog Hugo en Thu, 11 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.usedbytes.com/2022/08/screenmachine-flm-images/ Thu, 11 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.usedbytes.com/2022/08/screenmachine-flm-images/ <p>When I visited recently, my Dad gave me a challenge: He handed me a box of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk#3%C2%BD-inch_disk" target="_blank">3.5&quot; floppy disks</a><sup id="fnref:1"><a href="#fn:1" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">1</a></sup>, which hold lots of images of minerals from an electron microscope. The challenge: Turn the images into something viewable with a modern computer.</p> <p>I don&rsquo;t have any computers with a floppy drive, though I do have a bunch of floppy drives <em>not</em> in computers ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. I did think my 11-year-old desktop had a floppy connector on the motherboard, but alas not. I had to borrow a USB floppy drive from a colleague to read the disks.</p>