16 May
2005
16 May
'05
2:55 p.m.
On Mon, 16 May 2005, Jim Leonard wrote:
What is needed, and has been attempted and mostly
failed by several different
people, is this:
- A standard method of describing not only what is stored on a diskette, but
HOW and WHY (to make sense of all the gap/header/sync/etc. bits)
- A common way of getting that information off the disk, which will probably
require interfaces to PCs or MACs because the original hardware may not be able
to provide every single flux off the disk
- Well written "disk controller emulation" utility programs to translate the
archived stream of bits into useful data, the highest priority being the
ability to extract individual files
http://www.futurekeep.org
Until some common standard is defined and widely
accepted and applies
equally to every type of diskette-based magetic medium, I'll just keep
on doing what I'm doing that works for me, and I'll contribute my work
to the global standard if/when it exists. Just because there isn't a
standard doesn't mean I should hold off archiving.
The FutureKeep project will solve all these issues. Now, if only someone
can solve the issue of adding another couple hours to the day ;)
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