The Heirloom Blog

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Zip Disk

Zip Disk: How to Access, Recover & Preserve Your Data

Before USB drives and cloud storage, the Zip disk was a major leap forward in portable data storage. Developed by :contentReference[oaicite:0]{index=0} in the 1990s, these disks offered far more capacity than floppy disks and became...

127 Slides

127 Slides: What They Are and How to Preserve Them

If you’ve come across an unusual slide format that doesn’t match standard 35mm, you may be looking at 127 slides. These slides are less common but often contain incredibly detailed and valuable images. Unfortunately, they...