OT: Archiving data/video/movies/photos/oral history

From: CLASSICCMP_at_uhura.trailing-edge.com <(CLASSICCMP_at_uhura.trailing-edge.com)>
Date: Sat Jun 3 07:14:57 2000

Sellam wrote:
>On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, William Donzelli wrote:

>> There is evidence of this already. There are lots of people today that are
>> keeping "record players" alive simply because many of the things they want
>> to hear are only available on vinyl. The same is true with Edison
>> cylinders, 78s, 16' transcription disks , 2 inch Quad video, slow 16 mm
>> film, and scores of other dead media. Yes, CD-ROMS are far more complex

>See:
>
>The Dead Media Project
>http://www.wps.com/dead-media/index.html

I've looked at their pages, and tried to figure out what they do. They
seem to just write about dead media, and they don't actually do anything
with it. Is that true?

To paraphrase some comedian whose name I forgot, isn't that a lot like
writing about dancing but never going dancing?

Tim.
Received on Sat Jun 03 2000 - 07:14:57 BST

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