Disk archival

Jim Leonard trixter at oldskool.org
Mon May 16 23:20:56 CDT 2005


Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
> This is the problem that FutureKeep aims to resolve.  Existing images will
> be able to be converted to the FutureKeep standard, but they will lack
> essential metadata.  Once FutureKeep exists, it is hoped that any new
> images made will be done in that universal standard.  It is also hoped
> that volunteers will go back and re-image all possible software in the
> FutureKeep file format.

No offense to anyone who may be part of the project, but that's a pipe dream. 
I think a better goal is to create conversion utilities that perform 
cross-conversion to/from FutureKeep format, as that is much more realistic.
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