We're having a display of media carriers for an event soon, and a wonderful colleague just pulled out some laser discs that we used to have on the shelves at the library from their hiding place. Got distracted by this cover and forgot to take a pic of the actual disc! #obsoletemedia
#obsoletemedia
brought a crt on the train for the workshop tomorrow. come join us and see it in action connected to an #esp32 from 10-11am.
https://re-publica.com/de/session/dorkbot-create-old-school-generative-video-dog-vc
I'll probably never own a drive to read those, but these are some very impressive floppy disk cartridges. Also, 20 megs in 1984 - that's more than a typical hard disk had at that time. 😲
You call them "obsolete".
I still think they are beautiful.
Personally, I think #SlotMusic is okay and #SlotRadio is gimmicky, but apparently #Techmoan likes it because it's a way to #discover new #music and #artists...
- It's a shame the latter one is hamfisted with the limitation of no ability to freely choose tracks and/or skipping back.
But then again, 500-1.000 popular tracks for like $40 MSRP (or 4-8¢/track) is a bargain and had they not kneecapped it with #DRM and the limitations, it would've been "cheaper and more convenient than using #BitTorrent"...
Getting the tape drives to work at all was also quite a challenge, and I suspect that some of the failures could be attributed to mismatched software and hardware. In an attempt to figure out why many of the drives didn't work at all, I opened them up - and lo and behold, they're all just floppy-attached drives in a chassis with a powersupply and a parallel-to-floppy controller.
With one of these freed from its otherwise-dead dock, and attached to the floppy controller in my test rig, I could finally use one of the more standard tape backup solutions of the time: Central Point Backup from the PCTools suite.
With a bit of fiddling, and the manual re-spooling of one of the dead tapes (I was not about to ruin even more of them without knowing if this might work!), I was able to retension, write to and read from a tape. Success....kinda! Halfway through a compare operation, the internal drive belt snapped again, so I transplanted one from another dead tape and, despite some trouble reading some of the blocks, it succeeded!
So now I have several working drives, and at least some idea what to do when tapes break. Now I need to figure out what to do to prevent breakage in the first place! Looks like I need some "plastiband", according to tape backup geeks much more seasoned than me.
More to follow once I acquire new drive belts. Amazon, here I come! Oh, and repost, please :) (4/n)
#retrocomputing #backup #tape #obsoletemedia #floppy #museum #shakyhands #proprietary #formats
With one of these freed from its otherwise-dead dock, and attached to the floppy controller in my test rig, I could finally use one of the more standard tape backup solutions of the time: Central Point Backup from the PCTools suite.
With a bit of fiddling, and the manual re-spooling of one of the dead tapes (I was not about to ruin even more of them without knowing if this might work!), I was able to retension, write to and read from a tape. Success....kinda! Halfway through a compare operation, the internal drive belt snapped again, so I transplanted one from another dead tape and, despite some trouble reading some of the blocks, it succeeded!
So now I have several working drives, and at least some idea what to do when tapes break. Now I need to figure out what to do to prevent breakage in the first place! Looks like I need some "plastiband", according to tape backup geeks much more seasoned than me.
More to follow once I acquire new drive belts. Amazon, here I come! Oh, and repost, please :) (4/n)
#retrocomputing #backup #tape #obsoletemedia #floppy #museum #shakyhands #proprietary #formats
Just a quick video that I came up with while doing maintenance of my file archive - have you ever seen a pawpetshow video on physical media?
It's hard to believe that 27 years later and we are still running into the same issues. #digipres #digitalpreservation #electronicmedia #obsoletemedia https://video.alexanderstreet.com/watch/into-the-future-on-the-preservation-of-knowledge-in-the-electronic-age
#newparadigmsAV2023
#ArchivesAsData
#AudiovisualHeritage
Le travail toujours passionnant du Center of Art and Media Kalsruhe #zkm
Avec son département des collections (depuis 2017) : https://zkm.de/en/collections-archives
En particulier son expertise et ses machines de lecture des #ObsoleteMedia encore dans une institution publique, c'est rare.
Voir aussi :
https://improvisation-technologies.zkm.de/
Major #Floppy museum "social media" update coming soonish! Stay tuned ...
#retrocomputing #irc #286 #msdos #mtcp #vintagecomputing #obsoletemedia #museum #evildeeds
#retrocomputing #irc #286 #msdos #mtcp #vintagecomputing #obsoletemedia #museum #evildeeds
Forgotten media - Remington Rand/UNIVAC had a punched card format with 2 rows of 45 columns instead of IBM's 80 columns. More here: http://www.quadibloc.com/comp/cardint.htm #ComputerHistory #ObsoleteMedia
Ihr erinnert euch sicher noch alle an tragbare Musik vor iPod und anderen MP3-Player: die Sony MiniDisc. Enjoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCK89V4NpJY #obsoletemedia
#introductions I'm Drew, from near #boston, I have worked the admin side of #academia most of my life. Generally interested in #doctorwho and other less known #bbcscifi #obsoletemedia #horror and #independentfilm
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