[SCC_Active_Members] Archiving 2007 conference

[Al Kossow]

Larry Masinter wrote:

> I was wondering about coordination with other organizations that
> might have relevant material in their collections or who might
> be willing to help with transcription of CHM-acquired media.
>

I'd love to know about other non-profits with the technical capability
to process obsolete media. It is a very specialized field, and companies
that do it charge a lot of money for the conversion, as well as keeping
information such as reverse-engineered file and media formats to themselves.

This was one of the reasons that I've been collecting media
format information for a while now and started a media format library at
CHM.

There was an attempt to do this years ago http://www.deadmedia.org/index.html
but it never really went anywhere.

There is some information in the classiccmp archives a few people that have
been working the problem, primarily from data on floppies, including a recent
project to build a USB interfaced universal floppy reader that could be loaned
to people with old media and read on a modern PC.

I would like to do the same thing for 1/2" magnetic tape, and have a design that
I've not been able to get back to for almost a year now

http://bitsavers.org/tools/wizl/tapewizl/USB_TapeInterface_20060711.txt

I'm hoping that I can interest experienced hardware people in working on prototyping
the design. I accumuated the tools, and most of the parts, but have not had the time
to do the schematic or board design.