Let's develop an open-source media archive standard

[Steve Thatcher]

my concept of splitting the data and the formatting information relies on the data blocks being the correct size for whatever media you are creating. In other words, you could see 128, 256, 512, and 1024 "sectors" for floppies. Each data block is assigned a number (virtual or real) that is then used to put the data in the correct physical location on whatever media it was supposed to be put in. The addressing of the hex formats in less important that the ability to have a block size of the required length. A paper tape data block would be whatever arbitrary length the tape was a be sequential. Same goes for a cassette tapel recording that might have been converted to mp3 for storage.

best regards, Steve Thatcher


-----Original Message-----
From: "David V. Corbin" <dvcorbin at optonline.net>
Sent: Aug 11, 2004 8:46 AM
To: "'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts'" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Subject: RE: Let's develop an open-source media archive standard


S1 = 16 bit address in each record..
S2 = 24 bit address in each record..
S3 = 32 bit address in each record..

Hence the maximum sizes..... 

>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org 
>>> [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Jules Richardson
>>> Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 10:52 AM
>>> To: 'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts'
>>> Subject: RE: Let's develop an open-source media archive standard
>>> 
>>> On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 14:37, Cini, Richard wrote:
>>> > Dave:
>>> > 
>>> > 	I tend to forget about the Motorola format (call me an 
>>> Intel snob).
>>> > The 16mb would be enough for many systems, and I would 
>>> hope that 4gb 
>>> > would be enough, at least for now, to represent the 
>>> largest of the 
>>> > media types we want to represent.
>>> 
>>> I don't know about 4GB, but I'd really like to archive hard 
>>> disk images in the 20-30MB range using the same format if 
>>> possible...
>>> 
>>> cheers
>>> 
>>> Jules
>>> 
>>> 
>>>