Warhol works recovered from old Amiga disks

[Second Summer]

A dozen previously unknown works created by Andy Warhol have been recovered from 30-year-old Amiga disks.

The art experiments were produced in 1985 by Warhol under commission from Commodore - creator of the Amiga computer.

Commodore paid the artist to produce a series of works to aid the launch of the Amiga 1000.

Read more: Warhol works recovered from old Amiga disks (BBC News, 24. April 2014)

Apparently it took them 3 years to recover the images. That seems like a long time, to be honest! But it says they used "magnetic imaging tools" to copy the data off the disks without damaging the original disks, so I suppose it wasn't as straightforward as just inserting the disks into a disk drive and reading them.

 

[ledboots]

Very cool! Amazing how Warhol took to the new way of creating art.