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posted by n1 on Friday April 25 2014, @01:12AM   Printer-friendly
from the art-of-data-recovery dept.

The BBC reports that previously unknown digital works by American artist Andy Warhol were discovered and recovered from 30 year old Amiga disks with the assistance of Carnegie Mellon University Computer Club. In total, 18 images were recovered, most are also signed by Warhol.

 
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  • (Score: 1) by art guerrilla on Friday April 25 2014, @02:35AM

    by art guerrilla (3082) on Friday April 25 2014, @02:35AM (#35901)

    ...from 500 to 2000, and astounded me when i went to some amigacon thing in ny,ny, and they showed 'mandela', where you were projected on a screen background you could interact with and -in this instance- play sounds/music...
    meh, *now*; but w-a-y cool back in the bronze age of computing...
    seems kind of weird it took so long to get the files translated, didn't quite follow the reasoning on that...
    up until it faded to nothingness, i had a printout on the wall above my screen, from an old deluxe paint version where i did a portrait of my dog from a photo...
    it was no warhol, but i sure loved being reminded of my good old boy...
    many fond memories of using the amiga...

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 25 2014, @03:02AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 25 2014, @03:02AM (#35910)

    I suppose you mean 'mandala'. 'Mandela' is the surname of the late former president of South Africa who brought an end to Apartheid.