Needed: obsolete media field guide

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Needed: obsolete media field guide #10

Open finoradin opened 4 years ago

finoradin commented 4 years ago

There are ample tools and resources out there to help archivists and conservators identify obsolete analog audiovisual formats, but there don't seem to be very good guides for identifying obsolete born-digital formats. Let's make one! Here's a running list of some initial ideas…

3.5" floppies
5.25" floppies
ZIP disks
JAZ disks
Bernoulli
SCSI hard drives (2.5" and 3.5"
IDE / PATA hard drives
CD-RW
CD-R
Mini DVD-R

Plenty more…

ezrajteboul commented 4 years ago

This may be a good catalog https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvXXkB2jic0

finoradin commented 4 years ago

This may be a good catalog https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvXXkB2jic0

Super reference! Thx for sharing

splorp commented 4 years ago

The Museum of Obsolete Media might also be useful as a cross reference, especially for non-computer related media types.

https://obsoletemedia.org/

finoradin commented 4 years ago

The Museum of Obsolete Media might also be useful as a cross reference, especially for non-computer related media types.

https://obsoletemedia.org/

This one was on our radar for sure – so good 💾

ntallman commented 4 years ago

Tape has a lot of legacy formats, would be helpful to include tapes and tape drives.