the archives of Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight, which revolutionized data #journalism before being consigned to the memory hole by its new owners. #archival
on 02026-05-19#Dmitry Grinberg reverse-engineered the Fisher-Price Pixter and found that its game cartridges were full of code for a Forth-like 16-bit stack machine. Apparently the Pixter Color he started with was an ARM, but the Pixter Classic was a 6502, probably from the Chinese 6502 vendor Sunplus/Generalplus. “Fair, there are some old cores commonly used today in cheap places, like the i-wish-it-would-already-die-but-it-will-outlive-me shitshow that is the 8051, but this is the first I’ve seen of a modern tapeout of a 6502.” This writeup also has a good explanation of how resistive touchscreen #hardware works. #microcontrollers #electronics #reverse-engineering #archival
on 02026-05-14Len #Shustek’s "readtape" #retrocomputing #archival software
on 02026-03-15#video #toread of Len Shustek discussing his #readtape #retrocomputing #archival software
on 02026-03-15Karl Fogel on responsible #archival of difficult material such as wartime footage
on 02026-02-09Jeff Ubois’s bookmarks, largely about #archival
on 02026-02-09#DSHR is like 77 and wrote #NeWS with #Gosling and also wrote the book on it before he became employee #4 at #NVIDIA, then later was chief scientist on #LOCKSS (#archival)
on 02026-01-05apparently you can recover deleted GitHub repos from Software Heritage #archival, but this URL isn’t loading for me right now
on 02025-12-30A 22-gigabyte archive of #Hacker-News. #datasets #archival
on 02025-12-301.78 terabytes of mp3.com #music #archival
on 02025-11-05#archival of the #WordStar #file-format
on 02025-08-27oh apparently #LCD polarizers are made of #acetate and so they can get #vinegar-syndrome! So this Acer K385s from 01992 needed #repair. #archival #electronics #retrocomputing
on 02025-08-03#video on paper conservation for #archival with humidification chambers, aqueous aerosols, vapor-permeable membranes, and alcohol sprays. #CC BY-SA from a “Jigsaw Teaching” project
on 02024-11-24#history of the #archival of philosophy and its preservation throughout the Dark Ages. #toread
on 02024-11-01Keir Fraser of Xen and STM fame has a guide to #STM32 fakes and the #CKS clone CS32F103, because he’s been working on Greaseweazle #hardware apparently for floppy #archival
on 02024-01-17Anna’s Archive has added SciDB, a Sci-Hub clone using papers in LibGen, indexed by DOI. #archival #preservation
on 02023-09-28#PDF #paper "Cuneiform Tablets of 2015", Kay and Nguyen, on #archival.
on 02023-09-19for the 1000-year #archival hardware challenge, making a time capsule that could have working electronics in 1000 years, they sort of gave up. No battery, yes solar panel, blinking LED to call attention to non-electronic text.
on 02023-02-01Tripitaka Koreana #archival on carved wood blocks
on 02022-09-29P2P design from #za3k for #archival of archive.org
on 02022-09-29another #barcode #archival system, "qr-backup", which uses ordinary QR codes
on 02022-09-16Twibright "Optar", a printable #barcode for #archival on paper: 200 kB per page. “The printer, although having 600dpi nominal resolution, cannot reliably print individual white and black dots with 600dpi. The practical limit is at 200dpi, i. e. 3x3 pixel squares.”
on 02022-09-16more on #virtual-machines and #archival, focused on #Chifir
on 02022-05-21gordonDrogon and gtoal and jecel and others talking about #archival and #virtual-machines
on 02022-05-21stackexchange data dumps: Stack Overflow is 17.2 gigs for the posts, 4.9 gigs for the comments, 1.3 gigs for the votes #archival Jesus, I still have 1348 tabs open
on 02022-02-09#archival “fallacies”
on 02021-07-20theory and craft of digital preservation #archival
on 02021-07-20discussion of Nature taking up the computational #reproducibility and #archival problem (editorial by a Jeffrey M. Perkel writing on Konrad Hinsen's “Ten Years Reproducibility Challenge”)
on 02020-11-18#Python #archival problems for #SciPy.
on 02017-11-30Ted Nelson kept enormous amounts of technical information as “junk mail” providing lots of #hardware #history #archival
on 02017-07-01coordinating #archival of the multiple terabytes of UC #Berkeley video lectures that UCB pulled off YouTube.
on 02017-03-29Ellen McCrady’s overview of the paper permanence standard ANSI Z39.48 and other related standards for acid-free paper for #archival. The brief summary is that the pH inside the paper needs to be 7.5 to 10.0 and it needs an alkaline reserve equivalent to 2% CaCO₃.
on 02017-03-22a state-of-the-art historical #archival #OCR system #machine-vision
on 02017-03-11The Rosetta #space probe was launched with a #Rosetta-Disc in 2008 and eventually came to rest on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. #archival
on 02016-10-11#emulation of #Hypercard to explore a hypertext written by Vilèm Flusser in 1992. But I think the emulation is happening on their server, which makes it painfully unresponsive, and also means it will be lost when the server goes down. PS: it went down with a 401 within 23 hours. #archival
on 02016-07-26The game of #Senet was played for 3000 years, ending only 1500 years ago, but now its rules are lost to #history; the rules reconstructed in #archaeology result in a boring game. #games #archival
on 02016-07-11#paper on #emulation for #archival #toread
on 02016-04-29804 bamboo slips buried since about 300 BCE (near the end of the Zhou) were found in 1993 in the tomb of an elderly teacher of Crown Prince Heng of Chu, now part of #China, one of the #Guodian-tombs. #archaeology #history #archival
on 02016-04-20It seems like we might have found some #books from the #history of #China from before #Qin-Shi-Huang burned everything, smuggled into Hong Kong in 2008, now at Tsinghua University, being studied by Li Xueqin. It’s not totally clear from the article how many there are and whether they’re one #archaeology find or several, but I think it says they were buried around 300 BCE, near the end of the Zhou, just a century before Qin Shi Huang and stolen from one of the #Guodian-tombs in 1993 in the village of Guodian, in Hubei province; 1200 slips were bought by the Shanghai Museum at the time. Dartmouth paleographer Sarah Allan has written a new book about them, Buried Ideas: Legends of Abdication and Ideal Government in Early Chinese Bamboo-Slip Manuscripts, with a translation of four Confucian texts; an annotation and translation of the 800 Guodian slips is Scott Cook’s The Bamboo Texts of Guodian. #archival
on 02016-04-20PDP-7 Unix is back up and running in #emulation with SIMH. #history #archival
on 02016-04-16is a beta “web archiving platform and service for all” that generates downloadable #WARC files from your browsing for #archival.
on 02015-12-29pywb is a #Python library for #WARC #archival file browsing (and also Heretrix’s old ARC format). It does live URL rewriting on responses. Also you can use it as a mediator to inject stuff into pages as you browse.
on 02015-12-29The US Library of Congress has a web site about “digital preservation”; this is their page about #WARC. #archival
on 02015-12-29#WARC is a standardized, published successor to Heritrix’s ARC file format for web preservation and #archival.
on 02015-12-29#archival at #Herculaneum: reading scrolls with synchrotron X-ray phase contrast and X-ray fluorescence.
on 02015-11-11Elaine Shi’s work with Andrew Miller and Jonathan Katz for #archival using a #Bitcoin kind of system, using “proof of retrievability” instead of “proof of work”.
on 02015-09-29The Olive Executable Archive is an #archival project that tries to save whole #virtual-machine images. “For legal reasons, the VMs are currently accessible only to our research collaborators.” They’re using qemu and KVM so far, so basically they aren’t trying to solve any of the hard problems.
on 02015-09-29Vint Cerf on his "digital vellum" #archival project and how it’s related to the OLIVE project led by Mahadev Satyanarayanan at CMU. #video
on 02015-09-29#archival on fused silica discs at 1.5 GB/in² (18.6 terabits / m² — fucking folk units).
on 02015-09-29oh interesting, Vint Cerf is interested in #archival with the archival #virtual-machine approach, and therefore #bootstrapping, under the name #digital-vellum.
on 02015-09-29ROM images of various Apple ][ family machines and their peripherals, and also the Lisa, for #emulation and #archival
on 02015-08-07