Rumor has it that Vintage Computer Festival may have mentioned these words:
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Cini, Richard wrote:
I think that we should start compiling a list of
the various media we want
represented and how that media is organized natively. I don't mean
"well, it
has blocks and sectors" either. We should
examine the exact format down to
the actual numbers (i.e., "2048 blocks of 256-bytes recorded twice").
Seeing
how the various data stores are organized should
bring some clarity to how
we should represent it.
I agree. This would be useful. Does someone want to volunteer to do
this?
I'll volunteer. Short-term, I'll prolly keep a spreadsheet with the
relevant data & publish it to PDF for the web -- long(er) term would be
setting up a PostgreSQL Database & either a Python or ColdFusion
web-frontend so people could search (and possibly modify) the info on the
fly...
Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- sysadmin, Iceberg Computers
zmerch(a)30below.com
What do you do when Life gives you lemons,
and you don't *like* lemonade?????????????