I agree that master list of preservation tool lists would be fabulous, and I agree with the requirements you have specified. I like to think in terms of Amazon. Before I buy anything, I will more than likely read a selection of reviews of the product first and ratings of users. Similarly when...
No, I have not had the occasion to use the FC5025 on DEC floppies. So far, jut various flavors of CP/M, a few DOS variants (160k, 180k, 360k) and now CTOS. It is capable of imaging Commodore GCR and Apple II disks as well, but I have native hardware with other communications...
This is encouraging work! I am also engaged in recovering some CTOS disks. I used the floppy controller FC5025, as it comes with source code - and was then able to write the driver to decode the CTOS low-level format, and will contribute that back to the vendor for inclusion in future versions...
Regarding the image size reduction: Here are a couple of questions are to be discussed: What exactly is the object which is to be preserved authentically? Are the numerous operations to reduce the original disk image size identity transformations? Could this be proven in an automated way? How...
In this particular case the object may not officially be of long-term value and has been migrated to virtual/emulated hardware for research purposes. The database does actually have some short-medium term value as an index to the some of the paper records we hold.
It was a pleasure to read your post as this was one of the use cases we were thinking of, when doing some complete machine archiving experiments at the...
I agree that master list of preservation tool lists would be fabulous, and I agree with the requirements you have specified. I like to think in terms of Amazon. Before I buy anything, I will more than likely read a selection of reviews of the product first and ratings of users. Similarly when...
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No, I have not had the occasion to use the FC5025 on DEC floppies. So far, jut various flavors of CP/M, a few DOS variants (160k, 180k, 360k) and now CTOS. It is capable of imaging Commodore GCR and Apple II disks as well, but I have native hardware with other communications...
Thank you very much for pointing out a Kryoflux alternative. The Device Side USB floppy disk controller is very decently priced and offers the ...
This is encouraging work! I am also engaged in recovering some CTOS disks. I used the floppy controller FC5025, as it comes with source code - and was then able to write the driver to decode the CTOS low-level format, and will contribute that back to the vendor for inclusion in future versions...
Having tried out the Emulation Framework recently its worth...
Regarding the image size reduction: Here are a couple of questions are to be discussed: What exactly is the object which is to be preserved authentically? Are the numerous operations to reduce the original disk image size identity transformations? Could this be proven in an automated way? How...
In this particular case the object may not officially be of long-term value and has been migrated to virtual/emulated hardware for research purposes. The database does actually have some short-medium term value as an index to the some of the paper records we hold.
The database that is of...
Archives New Zealand produced a report on successful database preservation in a virtual machine and...
It was a pleasure to read your post as this was one of the use cases we were thinking of, when doing some complete machine archiving experiments at the...
Great job! It nicely complements the study on the "simpler" Microsoft operating systems done earlier. It demonstrates the challenges with...
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