Let's develop an open-source media archive standard

From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf_at_siconic.com>
Date: Wed Aug 11 16:27:54 2004

On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Dwight K. Elvey wrote:

> I'm not proposing the have raw binary. I agree that it all should
> be in ASCII. What I'm talking about here is just the data as
> compared with all of the actual information related to the
> format of the transitions on the disk surface. The archive needs
> both or an easy way to separate them.
> Emulators only need the data where as recreating a disk needs
> much more information.

Agreed.

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