The Investigator Transformed/Game On
The Investigator Transformed exhibition and book is a celebration of 50 years of Flinders University. One of the featured stories is about the Computer Archaeology Lab […]
Archive Author: Denise de Vries
8″ Disk Recovery: The continuing story
The last chapters in the 8″ disk recovery project have been posted on Open Preservation Foundation’s website. 8″ Disk Recovery: Kryoflux and Catweasel Hovering just above […]
Getting desperate: Down to the Physical Layer of 8" Disks
After we found out about the fdrawcmd and the characteristics of the Nashua disk and its track 0, we hoped to reproduce it on the relevant […]
Spinning up the first 8″ disk
Proceeding with our 8″ recovery project: After a short while the 24V power supply and the cable adapter board arrived from the U.S. Both have power […]
Digital Obsolescence: Reproducing Floppy Data Cables
Over the last 30 years many hardware concepts became obsolete. Parallel data cables are not common any more. They were superseded by fast serial connections like […]
An 8″ Floppy Disk Challenge
The university archive in Freiburg recently received a set of 8” floppy disks which might contain interesting case and research data. The hand-over procedure did not […]
Archives in The Netherlands
On 15 and 16 August, Dr de Vries visited the Utrechts Archives and National Archives in The Netherlands. The municipality of Utrecht and the Utrecht Archives […]
University of Freiburg Research Project
Gastwissenschaftlerin aus Adelaide am RZ / Lehrstuhl für Kommunikationssysteme Das Rechenzentrum bzw. die Gruppe FDM/Digitaler Langzeitzugriff dürfen im Augenblick eine Gastwissenschaftlerin von der Flinders University / […]
Computer Archaeology Lab website launch
To see a gallery of some of the computer systems we have in our lab, please go to csem.flinders.edu.au/thegoodstuff/comparch/. We have selected photos and information about […]