26 Jan
2023
26 Jan
'23
10:07 p.m.
Excellent post, thanks for the share! I think about that loss of information often. Its a
shame preservation hasn't been more of a theme, there are probably countless iconic
video games for which the original source code doesn't exist anymore. If
"digital archivist" was more in-demand in tech companies I'd love to engage
with that sort of work professionally...maybe someday.
- Matt G.
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On Thursday, January 26th, 2023 at 7:28 AM, josh <joshnatis0(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Thursday, January 26, 2023, Ralph Corderoy
<ralph(a)inputplus.co.uk> wrote:
Rob Pike wrote of magnetic tapes he had which
could no longer be read.
The coating had failed off IIRC. I tried to find the text but failed.
Perhaps it was on one of those Google+, Posterous, ... transient things.
Hi Ralph, I think you’re referring to this blog post (which I’ve also previously
struggled to find): https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2014/08/prints.html