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Your bigger problem, op, is that 8” floppies were generally not used in the home market. It’s likely a disk for IBM minicomputers or DEC VAX. This means you’ll need a super-weirdo collector of these things to read it. HYC is probably the owner, department, or company that this disk belongs to. My guess is the disk contains copies of text articles about the hijacking. These disks held very little information, anywhere from 80kb to about one megabyte. Anything more significant would have been stored on tape.
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This is a weird anachronism. The Achille Lauro was hijacked by Palestinian terrorists in 1985, so unless this disk predicts the future, it is younger than that. But by 85, 8 inch floppies were outdated technology. Desktop microcomputers existed. The Apple 2 used 5.25 inch floppies, the Macintosh, introduced the previous year, used 3.5 inch floppies. IBM PCs of the day could take either or both. Commodore used 5.25, Tandy 3.5. The only people using an 8 inch floppy would have been someone who had very expensive computer at work that used these things. This fits in with the theory that it’s an insurance analysis done for a yacht club. Enjoy your actuarial tables, op. I hope yacht insurance premiums from 1985 are worth it.
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