On 3/1/2012 1:12 PM, Christian Bartsch | KryoFlux Ltd. wrote:
I will answer in brief.
Hi Dave, so do I. now I think I understand the issue. It's about the
(old) open source discussion and daring to ask for money. I really
don't feel like arguing against that. What I know is that people
deliver good work when they are motivated. I see no evil in the fact
that people get paid because this can be a very good motivation. It
also enables you to spend money for things that make the product
better.You also can spend the money to train programmers so they use
latest techniques and don't do beginners faults. I don't speak for
everyone involved, but: I scan artefacts with a commercial scanner
software, I process images with Photoshop, and I use TotalCommander to
organise files and put them up on the FTP. This does not mean the
images scanned and archived are less preserved. I would not want to
exchange a single tool. I enjoy using them every single day.
Not relevant to the archival media question. If I want to go out x # of
years and work with what you are using a comparables, they certainly
stand an excellent chance of being in the state of being useful (jpgs,
pdfs, word files, (sorry word and MS are like cockroaches, they'll
never go away).
So to make a better case, I want a totally open and openly documented
tool not to deny you your livelyhood, but to ensure that in x# of years
if there are engineering questions about interfacing the archives and
tools to either vintage equipment, or simulators I have all the goods
totally documented and in my archive along with the images I produced as
I archived the stuff.
also many here on the list (Chuck) have great skills in copying old
media, but I fear that all of the domain knowledge that he rightfully
keeps to himself by doing the archival copies for himself will produce
the data on archival media, and satisfy his customers, but will be lost
out in the future when it could have been useful.
The horrible example of the C/PM image archives that vanished when Don
Maslin passed is not exactly the same problem, but is similar in that
the library he was compiling was lost when he passed.
I wish there were a good way to satisfy all of these, but I am mainly
interested in archiving anything I come across, and being able to
reproduce it in the future. And I like to collect things over which I
have total control. I don't mind the acquisition cost in this equation,
but it being closed would be a problem.
i do have one of the Diskferret board sets, for this reason. And I'm
one of the lame ones who has not had time to use it as yet. However I
have confidence that it will provide what I want, not only for the
floppys it was working with when I bought it, but with hard drives. I
have several 14" SMD drives which may come into play, and perhaps in an
ideal world some drums to digitize, and this is an ideal open tools to
do so with.
I doubt that Phil will be coming to my LGP30, but digitizing the drum's
contents would not be out of the question. I would be able to do the
engineering with him, hopefully should that happen in the future.
Jim