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From: "Vintage Computer Festival" <vcf_at_siconic.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 8:50 PM
Subject: Re: Let's develop an open-source media archive standard
> On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, Paul Koning wrote:
>
> > When you say "archiving" what span of time do you mean? A year? A
> > decade? A century? Longer?
>
> Is forever too ambitious? :)
>
> The idea is to create a standard for representing the data, not a medium.
> Media with near-infinite longevity will be the next undertaking :)
>
> > (See also www.longnow.org)
>
> Is there a specific section you want to refer me to?
>
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Here is an example of a society that preserves media on the Amiga platform
(complete images including the copy protection as used by the developer).
http://www.caps-project.org/
They have spent allot of time deciphering custom disk formats and saving all
of the information digitally so it can be reproduced exactly at a later
date.
TZ
Received on Tue Aug 10 2004 - 20:22:24 BST