Digital Preservation Practical Implementers Guild
@dppig.bsky.social
Wellington, NZ
Look what I found in a 20+ year old comic book!
October 8, 2024 at 12:08 AM
Look what I found in a 20+ year old comic book!
How to stop LinkedIn from training AI with your data | www.interest.co.nz/technology/1...
September 20, 2024 at 12:06 AM
How to stop LinkedIn from training AI with your data | www.interest.co.nz/technology/1...
New blog post from N Stillman -- theglobalfairspace.com/2024/09/17/e... Equity Begins at Home
#7 Equity Begins🗺️at Home
Hello, Everyone. It’s been a few months, and I’m now temporarily situated on the other side of the world in the Northern Hemisphere on sabbatical - been catching up with family and friends, and have a...
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September 18, 2024 at 10:38 PM
New blog post from N Stillman -- theglobalfairspace.com/2024/09/17/e... Equity Begins at Home
Experiment to plug Te Papa collections into ChatGPT blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2024/08/22/e...
Experiment to plug Te Papa collections into ChatGPT | Te Papa’s Blog
It would be hard to miss that Artificial Intelligence (AI) has seen an exponential rise in programming, availability, use, and debate in the last few years. Here at Te Papa, we’ve been looking at p…
blog.tepapa.govt.nz
August 27, 2024 at 12:01 AM
Experiment to plug Te Papa collections into ChatGPT blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2024/08/22/e...
"The race to save our online lives from a digital dark age" www.technologyreview.com/2024/08/19/1...
The race to save our online lives from a digital dark age
We’re making more data than ever. What can—and should—we save for future generations? And will they be able to understand it?
www.technologyreview.com
August 19, 2024 at 9:06 PM
"The race to save our online lives from a digital dark age" www.technologyreview.com/2024/08/19/1...
Dealing with killer collections - Archives New Zealand www.thepost.co.nz/culture/3503...
The Post
www.thepost.co.nz
August 15, 2024 at 2:16 AM
Dealing with killer collections - Archives New Zealand www.thepost.co.nz/culture/3503...
Vintage Zenith / Heathkit HERO 2000 robot for sale! www.trademe.co.nz/a/marketplac...
Vintage Robot - A Rare Find! | Trade Me Marketplace
This Healthkit HERO 2000 (ET-19) is considered to be a collectors item due to its rarity. It dates from the 1980s, and only 3,000 were produced.
It was an ed...
www.trademe.co.nz
August 8, 2024 at 12:10 AM
Vintage Zenith / Heathkit HERO 2000 robot for sale! www.trademe.co.nz/a/marketplac...
GOVIS 2024 - Trust to Innovate -- tickets still available! Gonna be a great conference. www.govis.org.nz/conference-2...
Conference 2024 | GOVIS Incorporated
www.govis.org.nz
July 16, 2024 at 2:12 AM
GOVIS 2024 - Trust to Innovate -- tickets still available! Gonna be a great conference. www.govis.org.nz/conference-2...
Does anyone have a spare CN50 - 50 pin SCSI terminator I can have? Bonus if you have tested it and KNOW it is good. #digitalpreservation
July 10, 2024 at 1:38 AM
Does anyone have a spare CN50 - 50 pin SCSI terminator I can have? Bonus if you have tested it and KNOW it is good. #digitalpreservation
Installed Debian 12 on a new machine. Had to swap out the SCSI card until I found one that terminated correctly. After much hassle I got Python3 installed and set up a venv. Got tapeimgr installed and running. ... but it doesn't see the tape drive. Disappointment. github.com/KBNLresearch...
GitHub - KBNLresearch/tapeimgr: Simple tape imaging and extraction tool
Simple tape imaging and extraction tool. Contribute to KBNLresearch/tapeimgr development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
June 26, 2024 at 1:41 AM
Installed Debian 12 on a new machine. Had to swap out the SCSI card until I found one that terminated correctly. After much hassle I got Python3 installed and set up a venv. Got tapeimgr installed and running. ... but it doesn't see the tape drive. Disappointment. github.com/KBNLresearch...
Thank you @euanc.bsky.social - the King of "dd"! We got stuff off a tape! Don't know what it is we've got yet, but we've got *something*!
May 28, 2024 at 2:39 AM
Thank you @euanc.bsky.social - the King of "dd"! We got stuff off a tape! Don't know what it is we've got yet, but we've got *something*!
RIP MS WordPad en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordPad "There will be no successor."
WordPad - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
May 21, 2024 at 3:35 AM
RIP MS WordPad en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordPad "There will be no successor."
AT&T 1600 / 6250 9-Track Tape Drive
May 14, 2024 at 12:39 AM
AT&T 1600 / 6250 9-Track Tape Drive
... and with a little command line magic I was able to mount a 9-track tape using FreeBSD. Of course, the tape was blank ...
May 13, 2024 at 11:10 PM
... and with a little command line magic I was able to mount a 9-track tape using FreeBSD. Of course, the tape was blank ...
Today we received an NCR System 3400 computer. "System 3400 models [...] support DOS, OS/2, SCO UNIX, and UNiX System V Release 4.0." -- which OS should I use first? ps-2.kev009.com/ncr3xxx/thec...
THE CORE MEMORY: NCR Computers of the 20th Century
ps-2.kev009.com
May 8, 2024 at 2:45 AM
Today we received an NCR System 3400 computer. "System 3400 models [...] support DOS, OS/2, SCO UNIX, and UNiX System V Release 4.0." -- which OS should I use first? ps-2.kev009.com/ncr3xxx/thec...
Having *some* success with FreeBSD. But it does funny things with DNS nameservers when grabbing a lease from a DHCP server ...
April 9, 2024 at 11:52 PM
Having *some* success with FreeBSD. But it does funny things with DNS nameservers when grabbing a lease from a DHCP server ...
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"The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk
The high-profile creator of magnetic media gave it up nearly three decades ago" spectrum.ieee.org/3m-floppy
The high-profile creator of magnetic media gave it up nearly three decades ago" spectrum.ieee.org/3m-floppy
April 3, 2024 at 7:32 PM
"The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk
The high-profile creator of magnetic media gave it up nearly three decades ago" spectrum.ieee.org/3m-floppy
The high-profile creator of magnetic media gave it up nearly three decades ago" spectrum.ieee.org/3m-floppy
I have spent the day attempting to install packages onto a FreeBSD machine off DVD because the internet doesn't work. 51% thrilling / 49% frustrating.
March 28, 2024 at 1:01 AM
I have spent the day attempting to install packages onto a FreeBSD machine off DVD because the internet doesn't work. 51% thrilling / 49% frustrating.
Managed to get FreeBSD installed on an old Dell desktop that had a PCI slot for a SCSI card.
March 26, 2024 at 10:35 PM
Managed to get FreeBSD installed on an old Dell desktop that had a PCI slot for a SCSI card.
Using DoD 5220.22-M today. I had forgotten how long it takes to write ones and zeroes across a 40 GB hard-drive. HOURS.
March 26, 2024 at 12:07 AM
Using DoD 5220.22-M today. I had forgotten how long it takes to write ones and zeroes across a 40 GB hard-drive. HOURS.
E oho! Fighting the agents of deterioration — The archival story of Te Tiriti o Waitangi
natlib.govt.nz/events/e-oho... #RichardFoyIsCaptain
natlib.govt.nz/events/e-oho... #RichardFoyIsCaptain
natlib.govt.nz
February 14, 2024 at 9:01 PM
E oho! Fighting the agents of deterioration — The archival story of Te Tiriti o Waitangi
natlib.govt.nz/events/e-oho... #RichardFoyIsCaptain
natlib.govt.nz/events/e-oho... #RichardFoyIsCaptain