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Digital Forensics Rescues Retro Video Games and Software
09/17/16 05:06 PM


Computer scientists at NIST help Stanford University Library preserve a priceless collection of digital artifacts.

https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/20...es-and-software

"...The Stanford University Libraries, which acquired the collection in 2009, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have just completed a multi-year effort to rescue the collection’s digital content from the Atari game cartridges, 5-1/4 inch floppy discs, magnetic tape and other deteriorating storage media that held it. That salvaged data is now safely archived on servers at the Stanford Digital Repository and has been added to NIST’s National Software Reference Library, a resource that supports digital forensic investigations..."







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* Digital Forensics Rescues Retro Video Games and Software Trebor 09/17/16 05:06 PM
. * Re: Digital Forensics Rescues Retro Video Games and Software Haze  09/18/16 03:45 PM
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