Equipment needed*
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To retrieve information from legacy storage media:
- Edison cylinders
- 78's
- 45's
- LP's
- Wire-recordings
- Reel-to-reel tape
- 8-track cartridges
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Stereo cassettes
- Compact discs
- DVD
- Punched cards
- Punched paper tape
- Nine-track magnetic tape
- DEC-tape
- Lantern slides
- 35-mm slides
- 2x2 slides
- 35-mm film strips
- View-Master reels
- 8 x 10 negatives
- 4 x 5 negatives
- 2-1/4 x 3-1/4 negatives
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2-1/4 x 2-1/4 negatives
- 110 film
- 120 film
- 9-mm negatives
- 16-mm negatives
- 35-mm negatives
- 35-mm movies
- 70-mm movies
- 16-mm movies
- 8-mm movies
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Super-8 movies
- Video 8mm Cassettes
- Beta-max video cassettes
- VHS video cassettes
- Laser discs
- 8" Floppy disks
- 5-1/4" floppy disks
- 3-1/2" diskettes
- Zip disks
- DC-2120 mini data cartridge tape
- QIC-80 tape format
- MFM drives
- SCSI drives
- IDE/EIDE/PATA drives
- SATA drives
- USB hard drives
- USB flash drives
- USB Thumb drives
- Compact Flash
- SD cards
- xD cards
- Memory Sticks
And then there of "data formats" and what it takes to read them.
- AVI vs. MPEG vs. MPEG-1 vs. MPEG-2 vs. MP4 vs. MKV vs. ....
- TXT, RTF, DOC, DOCX, DOCZ, PDF, ....
- GIF, JPG, BMP, JPEG, TIFF, PGN, ....
- etc. etc. etc.
And then there are incompatability issues:
- Window USB thumbdrives vs. MAC USB thumbdrives
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The Archivists' Lament
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"They don't make them any more,
Not the way they did before.
Trouble is,
We don't need them any less."
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- Chief University Archivist |
with apologies to Charlie Louvin
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- So much for the archiving of information in the electronic age.
- Paper is one of the few mediums which has survived centuries of time.
(Not even the stone tablets or golden plates survived.)
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-DZ.
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