Monthly Archives: July 2019

Now I know I’ve been banging on about the loss of knowledge as regards analogue magnetic media – audio and video tape – but yesterday I was reminded that it’s not just knowing about magnetic media that’s important. Yesterday when … Continue reading →

I’ve recently blogged about digitising analogue tape cassettes, and reading old 9 track tapes, both of which covered the problem of getting data back from old media. The equipment goes, people retire, and suddenly the data’s inaccessible. It’s inaccessible because … Continue reading →

A few months ago, I wrote about lunacy in the Victorian goldfields in the nineteenth century, or rather I didn’t, but I did pose the question about the treatment of the wandering disturbed who inevitably would have been attracted to … Continue reading →

The most recent post on the Christchurch Uncovered blog has been gnawing away at me over the past few days. In the post the author suggests that what we find in the archaeological record are those items that were seen … Continue reading →