Got a catweasel MK4+ floppy controller, it advertises a pretty broad catalog of different floppy formats so I think I've got that side covered :)
Emulation takes care of the rest. Just image old medium and read them.
But really, the oldest stuff I ever run to is 3½ floppies these days. (Except c64/etc.. stuff)

Likely still the hardest for me is video, no matter what the year is it's still hard to get realtime video capture working at times. Simple stuff like VHS/cam to avi. Hardware is somewhat ok, software never wants to work like it should and computers rely on a dice in whenever to work properly.
I have seen expensive equipment with mac pro's, and scalers, even those have their share of problems.. Altough a lot less than cheaper solutions.

And to stay a bit on-topic, the oldest restore for me has been files from a old old drive (200mb I think). Floppies are something I deal with somewhat frequently as well, be it either reading old stuff or writing so it can be used on older systems.

Oh and I hate recovering stuff from old cd's, I hate optical medium so much. Those who have dealt with this probably knows what I mean.

I have this same idea in my head as with demos in demoscene. You can make a old system do a lot with animation but that is just animation.
The real impressive thing is when someone actually finds a way to rotate a filled cube smoothly on a old system Instead of showing just some precalc frames.

In old movies you had real miniature explosions/models and all kinds of stuff, you needed to think outside the box to get these kinds of effects look good. They even looked realistic (altough you could sometimes see trough those).
You kinda wanted to see what they could pull off.
These days I almost just see the pre-rendered background doing stuff, it's nowhere near as impressive as they can make it do anything. There are no limits really.
It's kinda same as watching an animation player on a demo that does awesome complex 3d. It might look freaking brilliant but again, you could just replace the animation frames to be anything else.

This is why I still think that many older movies have better effects than modern movies where you can just make that explosion 4x bigger with little to no effort at all.

I have a pathetic 200Mbps connection :(
One ISP in Finland is starting to roll 1000/100Mbps though, It will cost like close to 100e per month.

MSE first felt like a great solution, But I have increasingly heard lots of DPC* latency issues after installing windows 7 over XP.
The main culprit? Microsoft Security Essentials.
I already know a few cases where people have replaced it with f-secure and instantly got rid of it.

* This is a serious issue that will make your audio playback crack and pop, it might even take hours before this starts to happen so it's very hard to debug.
Believe me, we fought with this beast for like a month (updating all drivers and BIOS, even resintalling windows but no go).
Immediately after removing MSE the problems disappeared instantly (and installed a 3rd party scanner).

So if anyone else is experiencing these issues while reading this, Try removing MSE.

If they can fix this fatal issue then I am all for MSE as I hate intrusive scanners that almost feel like scareware/adware.
And to input on the topic: I think that MS should be able to do what the duck they want to with their OS. They are just providing a FREE way to fix/clean up their OS from stuff that abuse it's weakness, wait a minute... that sounds almost like windows updates. Yeah. I have always felt that there should be a integrated tool for this ever since the 9x days, virus scanners shouldn't be anything that you need to pay any extra for. But this is just my opinion.

I don't care for the year but this just looks so much cooler than photoshop, I just love that scanline distortion happening during frame drawing :)

I am a sucker for these kind of devices, just like the modeller that was used in making of the star wars 3d wireframe deathstar model.

Soviet hardware design style rules, everything looks like from a sci-fi movie.

Sorry, it had to be said.

He is like an internet superhero!
Using the 'powers' to stop the bad guys!

The more ads the better, I love advertisements !
I especially love those forced flash-video ads that contain products that they don't even sell in this country.

This is really getting close to the typical dystopic visions of a future where they forcefeed ads in to your brains.
Not even money will let you escape them.
Soon you will need a camera in front of your set that makes sure that you are actually sitting in front of it and watching the ads.

Will not likely take long for the other companies to adopt something similiar like this.

Like 4channers ddosing wasn't already enough. Now the sites will suffer from the slashdot effect as well. Not that all this matters to me. I feel bad for the admins as they will get all the trouble and chaos. Ddosers likely think that they are attacking the big corporate giants but instead it's just the network admins who get all the shit and still desperately try to keep the sites up.

Just another proof that amiga still rules (and atari sucks) and that people still actively need more floppies to copy games !

Imagine using this for cutting stuff like your penis and then using the content fill tool(tm). People could compete on who would get the largest estimate ! Or nerds can finally remove their pimples from their faces easily, hurray adobe!! I currently suffer sleep deprivation.

What's wrong with marimba ?

I didn't completely RTFA, but.. If this works anything like the same way it does in here, it basically redirects you to a generic page where you can download virus / etc checks and fix your system. You can't simply reach other places (or no connection with other protocols) in that state. The ISP has basically just IP blocked you at that point (other systems under the same connection function like normal). The ISP also re-checks your system every hour or two to see if the issue has been resolved. This is also explained in the page with more detail. If it follows the same formula then I am all for it due to it working flawlessly so far. No false alarms so far in my rather heavy use. Oh yes, and I first ran into this on 2004.

The guys must get tons of orders each day and even hoax orders grow exponentially with increased popularity. I still have the old 5.10 discs around that introduced me and my friend to Ubuntu. But now with the increased internet connections and quick downloads speeds you can get it very fast and even use 'in-windows' installers in case you do not have a cd/usb stick to put the installer in.

I bet that the guys are looking at the clock to see when it's the earliest possible moment to announce it to grab more money. These must be a good way to get some more money from some cut content. Stuff that they planned the game to have from the start.