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Haze
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Re: Digital Forensics Rescues Retro Video Games and Software
09/18/16 03:45 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
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> "...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..."

and based on what was said elsewhere, it's available to absolutely nobody except the government..

so it's not really preserved at all, just gone to rot in a different place.







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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
. * Re: Digital Forensics Rescues Retro Video Games and Software gregf  09/18/16 06:44 PM

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