one of those fascinating things learned only by manual archival of materials:
Prickly-Pear Software recorded two exact copies of the program on a single 5-minute tape. the idea, i imagine, was to provide a second identical copy in case the tape became physically damaged (or mis-recorded during fabrication)
An amazing write-up by a passionate preservationist, Chris Person (@Papapishu on Twitter), on why YOU are the only one that can save media you love. 💿 📀 📽️ 📹 :hd_dvd_spin: :blobfoxcomputer:
For #RetroComputing / #Archival / #DataPreservation peeps: Anyone have copies of #ARM DDI 0100 ("ARM Architecture Reference Manual") revisions A, C, F, G, or H? I only have B, D, E, and I. I promise I'll put a complete bundle of them up on the @internetarchive if I can track down the complete bundle.
for the past few years i've been working to preserve as much of the multimedia era as i can.
brian thomas's If Monks Had Macs is a weird collection of hypercard modules that brian made, and collected them together into a fascinating piece of multimedia. equal parts interactive book, point and click text adventure, journaling software, art analysis, and social commentary - i wouldn't even know how to review it!
there were two editions of the program. the first was all made in Hypercard by brian in black and white in 1988. this one has a special place in my heart because all of the artwork was done in macpaint. you can play it in-browser here: https://archive.org/details/ifmonkshadmacs_1988
the second was remade by brian and his friends in 1995, using Voyager Expanded Books' Toolkit - which was basically a massive re-implementation of hypercard. it is in full colour this time, with some rendered artwork in place of the old macpaint art. disc image here: https://archive.org/details/IfMonksHadMacs
Anyone got recs on how to best digitize a booklet for archival purposes?
I've got a falling apart #necchi manual that's not the one floating around the Internet that I'd like to digitize. #sewing#archival
#CfP for "The #Archival is Political", a special issue of #Rejoinder, which will address the "politics of the #archive as an object of fascination for #feminist/queer scholars and activists".
The #JoCat thing is also a good reminder that if you really value a video, an image, a song, whatever online, you should really download it AND keep it in at least one cloud service.
I'll always do my best to keep as close to 100% of my content online, even the stuff I don't like anymore. But you can download or really do anything you want with it, just let people know where to find me
I’m teaching #archival arrangement and description course next semester. To explain topics and to supply hands-on examples, I’ll have the students create (arrange and describe) a collection of photos of #PancakeTheDog. I’m so excited about this
Something I realized while sourcing images by Pixiv id--
what a brilliant idea, it goes right to the image AND artist, and pixiv by default saves the ID as part of the file name! Almost 0 western sites do that!
But the thing is, artists are...singular creatures. I've encountered a stunning amount of dead links that way.
Forgive me for sounding anti-artist but the only way to properly long-term link a piece of online art is an archive site--archive.org or a booru or such.
Of course 0 respect for online ANYTHING is hardly unique to artists. I check my Broken Link Checker for sirtaptap.com somewhat often, and almost always some commentor's URL has gone dead, a site that pinged me back no longer exists, etc.
There are explicit instructions in my will to keep my website and content online to the best of my executor's ability. And aside from my video content--it's really not hard or expensive to keep this stuff up on a Potato.
Thinking recently about internet archival, the loss of pages that were too niche to be backed up, and wondering what's the best way to make a local copy of a web page or even site?
last boost: Frustrating as hell that domain names and hosting are stupid cheap and easy these days for a low-traffic site, unless your site incurs heavy traffic, you could probably keep any static content easily on a basic combo of:
Cloudflare domain ($8 a year)
Bottom tier VPS host ($5-10 a month)
Cloudflare free plan caching ($0)
Static content + CF cache can absorb an incredible amount of traffic with a toaster origin server.
#MUSIC#IDENTIFICATION HELP WANTED!
I've finally got transferred an open reel I bought from a recycling shop in #Toronto , ON, many many years ago.
Unfortunately I have no idea the artist, album, or song names!
Do you recognize any of the music, vocals or instrumentation in this sample I've prepared?
I bought a basically unlabeled 10" NAB Ampex 345 Master Studio reel-to-reel tape about 7-8 years ago, from a recycling center in Toronto.
I finally had it professionally tape-baked and transferred, and will pour over what the heck is on it; most likely posting it to archive.org. #archival#preservation#reeltoreel#digitization
Seems the #brother FTP server is dead... which took a LOT of old manuals with it. Not sure HOW long it's been gone, but it's certainly not on archive.org...
ftp://ftp.brother.ca/
Does anyone have archives or manual downloads from there?
Looking fruitlessly for this one in particular.
ftp://ftp.brother.ca/MANUELS%20_%20MANUALS/English/PRINTER/M1109-UG.pdf