8 Mar
2002
8 Mar
'02
3:40 a.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: Eric J. Korpela [mailto:korpela@ssl.berkeley.edu]
Sent: 07 March 2002 18:24
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: Seen on RISKS-L
What horse crap (as we all know)! Typical bloody uk journalists who can't be
arsed to research a story properly. If they want to see if it's *really*
still unreadable give the disks to me and I'll use them in my own Domesday
machine, based on one of those *wow*r@re* BBC Micros.
Or do they mean the discs themselves aren't readable anymore, regardless of
whether you've got a Domesday machine or not?
a
The BBC's 1986 Domesday Project (a time
capsule containing
sound, images,
video and data defining life in Britain) is now
unreadable.
The data was
stored on 12-inch video discs that were only
readable by the
BBC Micro, of
>which only a handful still exist. The time capsule contains 
8 Mar
8 Mar
4:09 a.m.
Adrian Graham wrote:
What horse crap (as we all know)! Typical bloody uk
journalists who can't be
arsed to research a story properly. If they want to see if it's *really*
still unreadable give the disks to me and I'll use them in my own Domesday
machine, based on one of those *wow*r@re* BBC Micros.
Or do they mean the discs themselves aren't readable anymore, regardless of
whether you've got a Domesday machine or not?
Stone tablets still keep better.
--
Ben Franchuk - Dawn * 12/24 bit cpu *
www.jetnet.ab.ca/users/bfranchuk/index.html
8:14 a.m.
"Fred Cisin (XenoSoft)" wrote:
But there seem to be few if any people around who have the hardware and
knowledge to read Stonehenge.
Who said anything about reading them? I said they keep better. :)
BTW The Stonehenge circle is believed by some to be early calculator
( priest powered ) for calculating the major events of the seasons ,
stars ,
sun and moon cycles. Stonehenge era designers used a lot of
TTL ( timber^2 logic) rather than CMOS ( Complex Mon-Olithic Structures
)
in the design.
--
Ben Franchuk - Dawn * 12/24 bit cpu *
www.jetnet.ab.ca/users/bfranchuk/index.html
Or do
they mean the discs themselves aren't readable anymore, regardless of
whether you've got a Domesday machine or not?
Stone tablets still keep better.
8:20 a.m.
"Fred Cisin (XenoSoft)" wrote:
But there seem to be few if any people around who have
the hardware and
knowledge to read Stonehenge.
Who said anything about reading them? I said they keep better. :)
BTW The Stonehenge circle is believed by some to be early calculator
( priest powered ) for calculating the major events of the seasons ,
stars , sun and moon cycles. Stonehenge era designers used a lot of
TTL ( timber^2 logic), DTL( Druid type logic ) , rather than CMOS
( Complex Mon-Olithic Structures) in the design.
--
Ben Franchuk - Dawn * 12/24 bit cpu *
www.jetnet.ab.ca/users/bfranchuk/index.html
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