A trove of never-before-seen digital artworks by famed Pop artist Andy Warhol have been recovered from floppy discs on an Amiga 1000, a personal computer from Commodore International. The discovery of these 1980s artworks places Warhol at the forefront of digital art, among the first to explore computer graphic tools in creating art.

In the 1980s, Warhol was an artist-spokesman for Commodore. A promo he did for the computer company with singer Debbie Harry recently caught the eye of self-proclaimed Warhol enthusiast and New York artist Cory Arcangel.

Arcangel began wondering if Warhol made digital art other than the marketing pieces. He took his question to the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh where the artist's hardware and 40 floppy disks were found, never viewed and in fragile condition.

A team of artists, museum professionals and the Carnegie Mellon Computer Club was assembled over multi-years. They carefully recovered 28 digital artworks along with the 1980s graphics software that Warhol used.

The task proved difficult since the file format that Warhol used on the Commodore was not known. The Computer Club had to reverse engineer the Graphicraft software in order to open the files.