Disk archival

[Vintage Computer Festival]

On Mon, 16 May 2005, Jim Leonard wrote:

> What is needed, and has been attempted and mostly failed by several different
> people, is this:
>
> - A standard method of describing not only what is stored on a diskette, but
> HOW and WHY (to make sense of all the gap/header/sync/etc. bits)
> - A common way of getting that information off the disk, which will probably
> require interfaces to PCs or MACs because the original hardware may not be able
> to provide every single flux off the disk
> - Well written "disk controller emulation" utility programs to translate the
> archived stream of bits into useful data, the highest priority being the
> ability to extract individual files

http://www.futurekeep.org

> Until some common standard is defined and widely accepted and applies
> equally to every type of diskette-based magetic medium, I'll just keep
> on doing what I'm doing that works for me, and I'll contribute my work
> to the global standard if/when it exists. Just because there isn't a
> standard doesn't mean I should hold off archiving.

The FutureKeep project will solve all these issues.  Now, if only someone
can solve the issue of adding another couple hours to the day ;)

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