Thread: Seriousness eBooks: a danger to posterity?
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Old 04-12-2009, 01:18 PM   #11
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
It can be a real problem, though. Eg, in the early 1980s, the BBC had a massive project to create a "snapshot" of comtemporary British life - pictures, video, etc. The end result was produced as a laserdisc controlled by a special version of the "BBC Micro" personal computer of the day. It was intended to be used as a long-term research tool. Now, a mere 25 years later, it's pretty much useless because the hardware to play it no longer exists.
They don't have one "BBC Micro" alive that will run long enough to transfer the disk info or software that will read it?
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