Introduction And Questions About Media Preservation

Yep, I recently brought back to life a Z80 based "Pulsar Little Big Board" STD bus CP/M system - It was surprising the lack of bit rot that the system had suffered since 1986, when I moved to my shiny new XT. In any case, there were all of my old projects in all of their glory - That got me going, and I spent an entire weekend moving data from various older archive format (from 360K 5.25" disks, to QIC-02 tapes) onto spinning platters... I found huge numbers of projects from firms that I worked for that no longer exist - And even remembered that I was actually paid (in $$$) to write pascal code... Never would have believed that! Backups are much more regular now days, and all onto optical media - as well as onto raid disks, so it is unlikely that they will be lost again. -- Doug Jackson, MAIPM, MIEEE Senior Information Security Consultant EWA-AUSTRALIA PO Box 6308 O'Connor ACT 2602 Level 1, 214 Northbourne Ave, Braddon ACT 2612 Tel: +61 (0)2 6230 6833 Fax: +61 (0)2 6230 5833 Mob: +61 (0)414 986 878 http://www.ewa-australia.com ============================================ IMPORTANT: This email remains the property of Electronic Warfare Associates - Australia. If you have received this email in error, you are requested to contact doug.jackson at ewa-australia.com or Ph +61 2 62306833 and delete the email. This message is not to be copied or distributed to other parties without the express permission of the author. Any personal information in this email must be handled in accordance with the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth). ============================================