Comments on: The Scanination and the Burnination

By: RedWolf

RedWolf — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 19:09:09 +0000

Thanks, Jason. I love you too.

By: Jason Scott

Jason Scott — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 03:55:36 +0000

And I’m happy to note that at my weblog, comments are not deleted because they’re less than positive about the weblogger.

By: RedWolf

RedWolf — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 02:42:26 +0000

I’m happy to have inspired your latest masterpiece in archiving.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 07:47:10 +0000

> Patrick: I added the head/link element you suggested. Let me know if I did it correctly.

Perfect!

By: kevin

kevin — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 05:59:34 +0000

Do you do requests? I’ve been looking for a ~1982 vintage novation modem catalog ever since I BURNED mine 10 years ago. heh, I foolishly thought I could curb my Apple II collecting at the time. That’s also when I gave away all my old softalk, softline, A+, incider, call-apple and other magazines. By now I’ve bought most of them back. heh

Anyway, I remember looking for many long hours at this old novation catalog, it’s in the old tall and narrow format their manuals were in. It had the original Cat coupler modem they made, the Applecat and Applecat II I think. I’ve slowly been trying to collect all the original manuals and boxes to make a virtual novation museum. So far I’ve only a complete archive of j-cat and even that I haven’t had time to put up…the manual is up there though. Interestingly, someone recently told me that apple’s original modem was OEM’d by novation.

By: Jason Scott

Jason Scott — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 05:44:25 +0000

Patrick: I added the head/link element you suggested. Let me know if I did it correctly.

KrisJohn: I do expect I’ll be going in that direction. It turns out there’s an actual program like PAR just for DVDs!

http://www.dvdisaster.com/

By: Krisjohn

Krisjohn — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 05:05:27 +0000

A friend has started using “Par2″ (http://www.par2.net/ http://parchive.sourceforge.net/) to add data-recovery information to the DVDs he burns.

(When it comes to your TIFF scans, I strongly recommend creating uncompressed TIFFs, then using WinRAR to compress them with the error recovery option offered by that program, then add par2 when you burn the files to DVD.)

Personally, I came to the conclusion that hard drives were by far a cheaper option than DVDs. And I have so many PCs that I can easily keep all the storage I need on-line. I passed the terrabyte mark a while back. While I’m sure you consume that sort of amount of storage at a scary rate, I still think a hard drive in an anti-static bag will offer better long term data storage than a DVD.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 05:05:04 +0000

Thanks for the ATOM feed! I’d like to suggest adding a element to your top and index pages, so that the feed will be picked up by user agents that know what to do with them.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 18:57:07 +0000

are you five people?

By: Jason (another one)

Jason (another one) — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 04:31:35 +0000

Time will tell with the DVD+R discs. Certainly, you are doing (more than) your part to collect and store these. Those 5.25″ floppies weren’t meant for long term archival storage, but they stumbled into helping preservation efforts years later.

Of course, the floppies were a temporary medium to get the bits onto a gigabyte-sized hard disks. Before long we’ll probably have the disks to keep all of those DVD+Rs online.