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12-04-2022, 01:44 PM | #31 | |
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And BTW, it took more than a day's work the first time out. Those old floppies were fast compared to most of their contemporary storage media but slow by today's standards and the required conversion from EBCDIC to ASCII didn't help. |
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12-05-2022, 06:03 AM | #32 | |
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See https://netpreserve.org/about-us/mem...ernet-archive/ I've no idea if they're still using it, or Oracle, but ZFS makes a massive amount of sense for them. Bit rot is definitely a thing, especially when you've got lots of bits. |
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12-05-2022, 09:14 AM | #34 |
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Dr Who wasn't lost. It and others were deliberately wiped for reuse (to save less than £200 per episode on video tape) or in case of film, destroyed to save pennies on storage costs. BBC Bean counters destroying culture. Stuff made in ITV in UK mostly survives. Yet BBC had/has archives of sound back to 1922.
The reasons for lost ciinema films is very varied. There was a very good "The Doll" from Tales of Hoffman, though there is a ballet based on the same story. I think all of ground-breaking Metropolis has been recovered, though a few bits are poor quality. The original VHS had a lot missing. Unfortunately the complete BD has only the captions in the original German, no subtitles. Still, Fritz Lang was a genius and you can mostly follow without caption catds as it's a silent film, though with a good music score. Before polyester/PET/Mylar AKA Safety Film, film was inflammable and original cellulose Nitrate film was explosively inflammable as it's related to "gun cotton". |
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Some long running websites are still using Oracle as MS SQL was only "new" (Bought in from Sybase at about V.6.0) and Oracle had Web server APIs. IBM DB2 was more suited to non-Web servers. Those are now on Linux servers but the original Web servers used Solaris on Sun boxes.
A huge amount of work to change to MySQL (or MariaDB now), so they keep paying the Oracle licence money. |
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Every year, when there's a new set of hurricanes, killer tornadoes, floods, earthquakes, or wildfires, I think about the books being lost. Plus even the every day smaller disasters that just hit single households.
And then there are illustrated titles, where people literally cut them up and sell the illustrations for people to use as decor on eBay. I can think of a limited edition non-fiction title I own that is becoming more scarce because of this sad practice! Author died 1940, illustrator 1958, so if I live long enough, maybe MobileRead gets it. And published 1930, so not too long to be PD in the USA as well. But I'm not young... Print, while it certainly can last a long time, is still very, very vulnerable. |
12-05-2022, 07:12 PM | #41 |
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Some years ago acid content in paper was a concern. Has book printing gone 100% to acid free paper or is that still something to worry about?
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12-06-2022, 05:50 AM | #42 |
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Yes it is. Only higher quality paper is acid free. Historically acidic ink was an issue too, the parchments might have holes instead of text, only a problem on double sided (Codex).
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