12 Aug
2004
12 Aug
'04
2:29 p.m.
At 04:59 PM 8/12/2004, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
What if you don't know what a tape you are
archiving contains in the first
place? What if you just want to preserve it in case someone else in the
future can figure it out?
A great point. I am reminded of the layers of TCP/IP.
It also reminds me of recording entire filesystems. Will
someday someone want to be able to drop into an emulation
of what a typical PC environment was like back in '94,
'96, '98, '04? We not only want to preserve floppies
but hard drives and all the files on them...
- John