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


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>> "...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,
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>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.

NIST....them SOB hoarders....."The government!" as "shirtless Joe" correctly points out who to blame. "Potato Salad!"










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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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