by Denise de Vries | Sep 13, 2016 | flinders.edu.au
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...
by Melanie Swalwell | Sep 5, 2016 | flinders.edu.au
We are launching a comparative site to discuss and capture memories of early microcomputing, between Australia and Korea in the 1980s. This cross-cultural project is intended to be a participatory archive of experiences and memories of early popular computing,...
by Denise de Vries | Sep 4, 2016 | flinders.edu.au
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...
by Denise de Vries | Sep 4, 2016 | flinders.edu.au
Over the last 30 years many hardware concepts became obsolete. Parallel data cables are not common any more. They were superseded by fast serial connections like e.g. SATA for traditional parallel IDE. One of the longest lasting standards, the 34 pin floppy controller...
by Melanie Swalwell | Aug 25, 2016 | flinders.edu.au
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...
by Denise de Vries | Aug 21, 2016 | flinders.edu.au
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...