Tag Archives: Data formats

The problems with digital audio archives

Posted on December 8, 2010 by Ray

A recent article in Rolling Stone (File Not Found: The Record Industry’s Digital Storage Crisis) laments the fact that digital recordings can go out of service due to format changes, plugin changes, and/or files not being readable (file not found). … Continue reading →

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Today's data and the 1000 year archive

Posted on October 27, 2009 by Ray

Somewhere in my basement I have card boxes dating back to the 1970s and paper tape canisters dating back to the 1960s with basic, 360-assembly, COBOL, PL/1 programs on them. These could be reconstructed if needed, by reading the Hollerith … Continue reading →

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