18 Jun
2010
18 Jun
'10
6:18 p.m.
On 6/18/10 5:00 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
Can it be done as anything OTHER than a hobby
project?
There certainly doesn't seem to be enough economic incentive to put in
that much work. I kept at it for years after it no longer paid the bills.
The worlds archives are slowly waking up to the fact that digital preservation
is a problem. To be honest, though, I don't see very many people going to the
trouble of saving much of anything before 1980.
I am very surprised no one from Stanford (Henry Lowood) or the European KEEP
project has ever contacted them about details, since they are all working on
preservation of copy-protected games.
he also wrote:
I would say that for most non-preservation purposes a
dump format is fine (and also has the advantage of being simple).
As software curator at the Computer History Museum and someone who is responsible for data
recovery and preservation of our
software collection, "dump" format is perfectly adequate for anything that has
not been deliberately crippled by copy protection.
They happen to be working on preserving a part of the computing world that was consciously
made difficult to preserve.