Douglas Wooster wrote:
> Thanks for the link, Gabe.
> I wish I'd known about The Living Computer Museum in Seattle when I was
> there a few years ago -- I'd love to see if I can remember how to sort
> payroll!!
>
> I never realized the Computer History Museum moved from Boston to
> California. Oddly, I couldn't find any museum history on their site.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: On Behalf Of Gabe Goldberg
>
> Strolling Down Memory (Core) Lane
> Museums and online resources help preserve computing history
>
> http://destinationz.org/Mainframe-Solution/Trends/Computing-Museums-Preserve
> -IT-History.aspx
Don't forget to look up the LOIRP ("Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery
Project") that, once they got the original download tapes that had
been sitting in storage since the mid-1960s, had to scrounge up the
parts for the "right" variety of tape drive to *read* these tapes.
I've heard funny stories about saves-- where data is saved on backup
media but not the programs to interpret the data.
There are likely a lot of data formats out there that aren't even
*that* old that can no longer be "properly" interpreted; The non-M$
version of OpenOffice XML format is an attempt, going forward, to
ensure readability into the future.
-soup
--
John R. Campbell Speaker to Machines souperb at gmail dot com
MacOS X proved it was easier to make Unix user-friendly than to fix Windows
"It doesn't matter how well-crafted a system is to eliminate errors; Regardless
of any and all checks and balances in place, all systems will fail because,
somewhere, there is meat in the loop." - me
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