10 Aug
2004
10 Aug
'04
1:22 p.m.
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From: "Vintage Computer Festival" <vcf(a)siconic.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 8:50 PM
Subject: Re: Let's develop an open-source media archive standard
Here is an example of a society that preserves media on the Amiga platform
(complete images including the copy protection as used by the developer).
http://www.caps-project.org/
They have spent allot of time deciphering custom disk formats and saving all
of the information digitally so it can be reproduced exactly at a later
date.
TZ
On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, Paul Koning wrote:
Festival
When you say "archiving" what span of
time do you mean? A year? A
decade? A century? Longer?
Is forever too ambitious? :)
The idea is to create a standard for representing the data, not a medium.
Media with near-infinite longevity will be the next undertaking :)
(See also www.longnow.org)
Is there a specific section you want to refer me to?
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