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 They were superseded by fast serial connections like e.g. SATA for traditional parallel IDE.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 connector, went out of use too.
Articles
- Updated CFP: Hacking and Making the Digital Era
- CFP for #SCMS18: Hacking and Making the Digital Era
- Fans and Videogames published!
- 8″ Disk Recovery: The continuing story
- The Investigator Transformed/Game On
- Getting desperate: Down to the Physical Layer of 8″ Disks
- Spinning up the first 8″ disk
- Popular Memory Archive of Australia and Korea
- An 8″ Floppy Disk Challenge
- Digital Obsolescence: Reproducing Floppy Data Cables
- Congratulations Dongwon Jo
- Archives in The Netherlands
- University of Freiburg Research Project
- BDAX 2016
- Lori Emerson
- Computer Archaeology Lab website launch
- Dr Craig Mudge AO
- Erik Champion seminar
- Film launched
- Hardware needed!
- UNESCO PERSIST Taskforce
- State Library of South Australia Staff Visit
- Stanford CaptureLab 2015
- Seminar 4th August
- Job Opportunity: Research Associate
- CSEM Expo – Digital Preservation for the Future
- International Council on Archives
- Preserving Microbee software with MSPP
- Lab Launch
- Lunchtime seminar
- Graeme Kirkpatrick lecture
- Obituary: Craig Harrington
- New Computer Archaeology Lab
- Emulation-as-a-Service
- PhD scholarship topup
- Public Lecture on Emulation as a Service (EaaS)
- Masterclass
- Upcoming Public Lecture: Preserving Digital Art and Games
- Digital Preservation experts to visit
- Computer disk collections at the SLSA: Creating disk images of born digital content
- visit by Ian Welch
- Wide discussion of a range of current projects at July meeting
- CFP may be of interest
- 23rd July meetup
- First meeting