Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:58:22 -0400
From: Ted White <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: [wsfa-forum] Re: [WSFA] Re: Give Me That Old Time
 Technology!
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

  Oh.  My.  Ghod.

--Ted White

On 8/23/2010 2:02 PM, George Shaner wrote:

>  I'll make note of the concept for 2012.=0A=0A=0A=0A----- Original
>  Message -= ---=0AFrom: Madeleine Yeh <myeh at wap.org>=0ATo:
>  wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com; = Michael Walsh <mjw at press.jhu.edu>; WSFA
>  members =0A<WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net=
> > =0ACc: george_shaner at yahoo.com=0ASent: Mon, August 23, 2010
> > 11:56:37 AM=0A=
>  Subject: [WSFA] Re: [wsfa-forum] Re: [WSFA] Re: Give Me That Old Time
>  Technology!= =0A=0A=A0 If we are putting up wish lists about archives
>  how about going ba= ckwards too=0AA)=A0 Preserving paper technology
>  with reports on Library of = Congress activity=0AB)=A0 Development of
>  the book with hands on workshop=A0= crafts=0AC)=A0 How to make and
>  bake your own clay tablet or writing in the= Sumerian age.=0A=0ATruly
>  it would be nice to see the electronic age and it= s various
>  unreadable =0Aforms.=0AI have tapes of old directories but not th= e
>  machinery to read them.=0AI still have some original 3.5 inch
>  floppies an= d no idea how to look at them.=0AI never really thought
>  about different wor= k processing programs, but how do =0Apicture and
>  music programs last?=0A=A0= =A0 Madeleine=0A=0A=0AOn Mon, 23 Aug 2010
>  11:43:24 -0400=0A"Michael Walsh"= <mjw at press.jhu.edu> wrote:=0A> I
>  think a Capclave presentation would be sp= iffy.=A0 Get all of the
>  fans acting =0A>like computer geezers <g>=0A> =0A> = mjw=A0 =A0
>  =0A>>>> Madeleine Yeh <myeh at wap.org> 8/23/2010 11:41 AM >>>=0A> = A
>  general you, but I was thinking this would be a nice lecture to
>  listen to= at =0A>Capclave since I would be there anyway.=A0 If this
>  person is at Nat= ional Archives, =0A>maybe George can make
>  arrangements?=A0 I have zip drive= s and floppies and little=A0
>  =0A>USB devices and tapes and really wish thes= e were
>  archival.=0A>=A0 =A0 =A0 Madeleine=0A> =0A> =0A> On Mon, 23 Aug
>  2010= 11:31:39 -0400=0A>=A0 "Michael Walsh" <mjw at press.jhu.edu>
>  wrote:=0A>> Who = is the "you" are asking? =0A>> mjw=0A>> =0A>>>>>
>  Madeleine Yeh <myeh at wap.or= g> 8/23/2010 11:25 AM >>>=0A>> You
>  couldn't talk this person into giving a = public lecture somewhere
>  could =0A>you?=0A>> =0A>> =0A>> On Mon, 23 Aug 201= 0 10:04:08
>  -0400=0A>>=A0 "Michael Walsh" <mjw at press.jhu.edu> wrote:=0A>>> h=
>  ttp://blog.photography.si.edu/2010/08/10/electronic-records-archivist/=
>  = =0A>> =0A>>> =0A>>> http://tinyurl.com/29ummrm =0A>>> mjw=0A>>>
>  =0A>> =0A>>= =0A> =0A> =0A> =0A> =0A>
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