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This is meant to be a quick overview and primer of the flippy disk and disk hardware situation with regards to 5.25″ floppy drives. It is for reference and referral by others for an easy unde…
There was a week in January 2014 where I participated in three meetings/events where emulation came up as a digital preservation solution. Emulation has really hit its stride, 20 years after I first heard about it. An emulator is an environment that imitates the behavior of a computer or other electronic system.  In recent years, […]
A simple enclosure for the KryoFlux floppy disk controller board.
Mark Thompson, now president and chief executive of The New York Times Company, testified that he had never “knowingly misled” Parliament over the project’s progress.
Cheap storage with a 50-year life span? Facebook spreads the gospel of Blu-ray.
Gamers' designs turned into real molecules, and work better than computers'.
New consortium(?) for academic digital preservation(?). Keep an eye on it.
In which server-farm giants share their hardware infrastructure designs.
Backblaze uses 25,000 hard drives for its online backup service. This has provided some interesting information, such as how long hard drives are likely to last and the difference in reliability between enterprise and consumer drives. Today, Backblaze has spilled the beans on which drive manufacturers are the most…
Academia.edu is a platform for academics to share research papers.
Academia.edu is a platform for academics to share research papers.
Mike Seay of Illinois was shocked to receive an envelope with 'Daughter Killed in Car Crash' under his name. Data experts say companies track such information.
Dropbox pivoting away from consumers because consumers can't be arsed to back their stuff up.
Final report to the University Libraries in fulfillment of the 2013 President's Excellence in Leadership program.
Four of the vintage Macs from ELL were destroyed in shipment to the Pathfinders exhibit at the Modern Language Association convention in Chicago last week. The boxes were delivered in perfect shape; however, when I opened up the first one, the LC 575, I noticed a piece of the top was cracked. As I pulled…
The theft of a University of Minnesota professor’s laptop, portable scanner and external hard drive last February resulted in a data breach of the personal information of 119 victims and witness