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Library is Rescuing Historical Treasures Trapped on Old Floppy Disks from the ‘Digital Dark Ages’
Cambridge University archivists are leading an important project to extract and conserve valuable information from floppy disks before they become unusable. The initiative began when the archive received a box of 5.25-inch floppy disks from a DOS-formatted computer that belonged to none other than physicist Steven Hawking, who was able to use early computers despite […] The post Library is Rescuing Historical Treasures Trapped on Old Floppy Disk…
The University of Cambridge has a digital preservation project with the precious name Future Nostalgia. The idea is to safeguard everything interesting they find in diskette format before it disappears due to the degradation of magnetized iron oxide. It is a counterclockwise struggle to prevent the "technological obsolescence" erase half a century of computer memory. The project, led by Leontien Talboom, is focused specifically on diskettes with…
The people rescuing forgotten knowledge trapped on old floppy disks
From lectures by Stephen Hawking to the letters of British politician Neil Kinnock – it’s a race against time to save the historical treasures locked away on old floppy disks. When the (Cambridge University) library received 113 boxes of papers and mementoes from the office of physicist Stephen Hawking, it found itself with an unusual challenge. Tucked alongside the letters, photographs and thousands of pages relating to Hawking’s work on theor…
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