When Irreplaceable History Lives on Obsolete Tech - Popular Mechanics
*Cory Arcangel, a Brooklyn, New York*–based artist, was watching a video
from 1985 on YouTube (below) in which artist Andy Warhol generates a
"painting" of Blondie lead singer Debbie Harry on an early Amiga computer,
when he wondered, what became of these files? After a quick message to the
Andrew Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, he found out: Sitting in the archives,
yet to be catalogued, was a series of 3.5-inch floppy disks.

The Computer Club at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh set about
retrieving and saving Warhol's mid-'80s digital experiments. When they
succeeded this spring, headlines heralded the achievement
<http://www.theverge.com/2014/4/24/5646554/andy-warhols-lost-amiga-computer-art-photo-essay>
for reviving unseen works of one of the 20th century's best-known artists.

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