Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 19:27:19 -0400
From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Give Me That Old Time Technology!
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Tamar Lindsay wrote:
> --- On Mon, 8/23/10, Madeleine Yeh <myeh at wap.org> wrote:
>
>> If we are putting up wish lists about archives how
>> about going backwards too
>> A)  Preserving paper technology with reports on
>> Library of Congress activity
>
> There are books about that... AIUI the LoC has
> a chemical dip method to preserve fragile paper books.

Do you have a link? I'd love to do that to a lot of my Ace doubles.
<snip>
>> Truly it would be nice to see the electronic age and its
>> various unreadable forms.
>> I have tapes of old directories but not the machinery to
>> read them.
>
> Probably need the software as well.

DOS? You can do that in Win 7 or FreeDos.
>
>> I still have some original 3.5 inch floppies and no idea
>> how to look at them.
>
> Program? A good word processing program ought to at least
> read the directory; there are USB 3.5 floppy readers for
> access to the floppy.

You don't have a 3.5" drive?
<snip>
mark
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