8 Mar
2002
8 Mar
'02
12:40 a.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: Eric J. Korpela [mailto:korpela@ssl.berkeley.edu]
Sent: 07 March 2002 18:24
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: Seen on RISKS-L
What horse crap (as we all know)! Typical bloody uk journalists who can't be
arsed to research a story properly. If they want to see if it's *really*
still unreadable give the disks to me and I'll use them in my own Domesday
machine, based on one of those *wow*r@re* BBC Micros.
Or do they mean the discs themselves aren't readable anymore, regardless of
whether you've got a Domesday machine or not?
a
The BBC's 1986 Domesday Project (a time
capsule containing
sound, images,
video and data defining life in Britain) is now
unreadable.
The data was
stored on 12-inch video discs that were only
readable by the
BBC Micro, of
>which only a handful still exist. The time capsule contains