GADFRAN
Experienced Member
This is a copy of the post – between two double lines
From Steve Shumaker on cctalk@classiccomp.org
Th 10/14/2010
“New Vintage Web Site
=======================================
FYI
10 SEPT 2010: MARYLAND INSTITUTE FOR TECHNOLOGY IN THE HUMANITIES
(MITH) LAUNCHES VINTAGE COMPUTING SITE:
MITH is very pleased to announce a new Web site
<http://mith.umd.edu/vintage-computers/> devoted to its sizable (and
growing) collection of vintage computers, retro software, and other
artifacts from the early era of personal computing. The centerpiece
of the site is a a considered metadata and modeling approach to
computing hardware, whereby individual components of the vintage
machines are documented, contextualized within their relation to the
system as a whole, and expressed using Dublin Core. The site gathers
links to other recent MITH projects in born-digital cultural
heritage, and serves as a clearing house for our expanding portfolio
in this area. It also includes newly written non-specialist's
documentation for the FC5025 Floppy Disk Controller, a device used to
retrieve data off of obsolescent media formats.
The site is presented using the content management tool Omeka. It was
researched and designed by Walker Sampson, who recently completed an
MLS from the School of Information at the University of Texas;
Sampson was in residence at MITH this past summer under the auspices
of the IMLS-sponsored Digital Humanities Model Internship Program.
MITH's Associate Director Matthew Kirschenbaum comments, "This site
demonstrates the role that vintage computing can have in the
environment of an active digital humanities center; as born-digital
cultural heritage becomes ever more important, centers such as MITH
will play a part alongside of libraries and archives in addressing
its long-term presentation and curation."
SOURCE:http://mith.umd.edu/mith-launches-vintage-computing-site/
Note FC5025 Floppy Disk Controller documentation is very well done !!!
I posted on this device in the past on this site.
I found it works as advertised.
Works for Kaypro 4 disks and will for Kaypro II in the future.
Site seems like mostly Apple right now, but it will be interesting to see what they include as they expand and continue operations for the next few years.
Seems very well done so far, but only briefly looked at it.
Frank
P.S.
I will also post this under the CP/M forum due to the deviceside info.
From Steve Shumaker on cctalk@classiccomp.org
Th 10/14/2010
“New Vintage Web Site
=======================================
FYI
10 SEPT 2010: MARYLAND INSTITUTE FOR TECHNOLOGY IN THE HUMANITIES
(MITH) LAUNCHES VINTAGE COMPUTING SITE:
MITH is very pleased to announce a new Web site
<http://mith.umd.edu/vintage-computers/> devoted to its sizable (and
growing) collection of vintage computers, retro software, and other
artifacts from the early era of personal computing. The centerpiece
of the site is a a considered metadata and modeling approach to
computing hardware, whereby individual components of the vintage
machines are documented, contextualized within their relation to the
system as a whole, and expressed using Dublin Core. The site gathers
links to other recent MITH projects in born-digital cultural
heritage, and serves as a clearing house for our expanding portfolio
in this area. It also includes newly written non-specialist's
documentation for the FC5025 Floppy Disk Controller, a device used to
retrieve data off of obsolescent media formats.
The site is presented using the content management tool Omeka. It was
researched and designed by Walker Sampson, who recently completed an
MLS from the School of Information at the University of Texas;
Sampson was in residence at MITH this past summer under the auspices
of the IMLS-sponsored Digital Humanities Model Internship Program.
MITH's Associate Director Matthew Kirschenbaum comments, "This site
demonstrates the role that vintage computing can have in the
environment of an active digital humanities center; as born-digital
cultural heritage becomes ever more important, centers such as MITH
will play a part alongside of libraries and archives in addressing
its long-term presentation and curation."
SOURCE:http://mith.umd.edu/mith-launches-vintage-computing-site/
Note FC5025 Floppy Disk Controller documentation is very well done !!!
I posted on this device in the past on this site.
I found it works as advertised.
Works for Kaypro 4 disks and will for Kaypro II in the future.
Site seems like mostly Apple right now, but it will be interesting to see what they include as they expand and continue operations for the next few years.
Seems very well done so far, but only briefly looked at it.
Frank
P.S.
I will also post this under the CP/M forum due to the deviceside info.