Fans and Videogames published!
The anthology Fans and Videogames: Histories, Fandom, Archives, edited by Melanie Swalwell, Helen Stuckey, and Angela Ndalianis, has now been published by Routledge. Thanks to all […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Popular Memory Archive of Australia and Korea
We are launching a comparative site to discuss and capture memories of early microcomputing, between Australia and Korea in the 1980s. This cross-cultural project is intended […]
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 They were superseded by fast serial connections like […]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 […]
Congratulations Dongwon Jo
Our Digital Heritage collaborator, Dr Dongwon Jo, has been awarded a postdoctoral research fellowship from the Korean National Research Foundation. Currently the recipient of an Endeavour […]