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Even as technology marches on, there is a slowly growing enthusiasm for looking back on the history of computing, and preserving those still-working specimens of obsolete systems and vintage hardware and software that exist. The movement is known as retrocomputing, and although it’s mostly done as a hobby, I would argue that the people who collect and […]
For two years, owners of Apple’s iPhone have complained bitterly about the lack of video recording capability, something that has become more and more common on mobile devices, if not yet matured. Three weeks ago, they finally got their wish, and the results have been quite dramatic. The weekend after Apple’s latest reveal – the […]
An interesting tidbit from General Electric may possibly breathe new life into removable-disc storage, with their just-announced holographic technology: NISKAYUNA, N.Y., Apr 27, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) — GE | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating — GE Global Research, the technology development arm of the General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), today announced a major breakthrough […]
One of the more frequent debates that I see cropping up often in preservation circles is how best to preserve “born digital” photographs: those photos that never began as physical film, but originated on a digital camera. This isn’t an easy topic. There is no industry standard for born digital image preservation. Digital cameras of […]