Spinning up the first 8″ disk

Proceeding with our 8″ recovery project: After a short while the 24V power supply and the cable adapter board arrived from the U.S. Both have power requirements and fit traditional PC power cable sockets. To actually connect the 8” drive without external power...

An 8″ Floppy Disk Challenge

The university archive in Freiburg recently received a set of 8” floppy disks which might contain interesting case and research data. The hand-over procedure did not generate much valuable information, but just a stack of those disks with some additional paper stuck...

Congratulations Dongwon Jo

Our Digital Heritage collaborator, Dr Dongwon Jo, has been awarded a postdoctoral research fellowship from the Korean National Research Foundation. Currently the recipient of an Endeavour Award, Dongwon has been at Flinders for the last 5 months, conducting...

Archives in The Netherlands

On 15 and 16 August, Dr de Vries visited the Utrechts Archives and National Archives in The Netherlands. Utrecht Archives The municipality of Utrecht and the Utrecht Archives are collaborating on the project e-depot (electronic deposit).  They are researching the...