English Edition: floppy disks, hard drives, CDs, DVDs, SSD drives - no matter what you choose to store your data on - ultimately they all decay. With my guests Callum McKean, Leontien Talboom and Adrian Page-Mitchell, we're going to talk about what kinds of data we find on old drives, why we want to get them in the first place, and what can go wrong with the storage media. To all of you who love all things retro - we'll be talking about floppy disks a bit.
Links:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF/APDF A format
- https://www.ibm.com/history/floppy-diskhistory of floppy disks
- https://www.domesday86.com/?page_id=2140The BBC Domesday project
- https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/The excellent Centre of Computing History in Cambridge, UK
- https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4849567/stability of DVDs and CDs
- https://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub121/sec5/how environmental conditions affect optical drives
Conference announcements
- https://rse.swiss/swiss_rse_daySwiss RSE Day, 31 August 2026
- https://www.researchsoft.org/irsc/International Research Software Conference 7-8 September 2026, Sheffield, UK
- https://rsecon26.society-rse.org/UK RSE Conference (the 10th anniversary) in Sheffield, UK 9-11 September 2026
- https://nordic-rse.org/nrse2026/9 June 2026, Tromsoe, Norway
- https://events.hifis.net/event/3249/overviewdeRSE Collaborations workshop in Goettingen, Germany 23-25 September
- https://us-rse.org/usrse26/US RSE Conference, 19-21 October 2026, San Jose, CA, USA
Thank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören!
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