The challenge of dated data

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Until last week, a plastic box languished in the bottom of my drawer. The box was the size of a bread loaf containing slices of plastic—computer diskettes from the 1990s–my backup system before flash drives and Carbonite. The last computer that could read the disks was junked three years ago. I tossed the floppies out in a fit of New …