Joe Carrano @joe@digipres.club

Great zine on Hilda Carpenter, one of the women lab technicians who wove the physical core memory for Project Whirlwind at MIT in the 1950's http://thesoftcircuiteer.net/projects/hilda-wove-all-those-wires/

Just found these same instructions in a reel to reel tape here. We need more cute cartoons in today's storage media landscape https://kartemquinarchive.blogspot.com/2013/07/proper-care-of-video-tapes.html

Anyone else find #WDPD2018 overwhelming? Like last year, I'm going to disengage and allot the next few weeks to get through all the blog posts ✌️

And so marks my every 6 month request to duckduckgo for an MIT libraries !bang... it supposedly takes 3-4 months for them to add one but I have yet to be successful

I wonder if people have been checking back for the last 20 years http://alumweb.mit.edu/groups/amita.old/esr/sports.html

A little dos box action testing files for a researcher. Unfortunately it's more about molecules than designing pots https://digipres.club/media/rOIRGwOS_unk2xiEJKc

http://qis.mit.edu/

https://digipres.club/media/7l0vjFqNaZfJRxg60TM

I wonder if HR wrote part of this posting: "Use technology to create, store, and replicate Administrative Installation Points (AIP)" 🤔 https://brown.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/staff-careers-brown/job/John-Hay-Library/Senior-Library-Specialist-Special-Collections-Digital-Records_REQ151117

I wish I was a better web crawler
I wish I was a baller
I wish a had a url that looked good, I would brozzler
I wish I had archive-it test out that
with a stat
that was 64 gigs smaller

Marking my calendar https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/digitalhks/event/ai-history-bias-and-oppression-computing

Catching up on some three month old news, it seems the Mass congress has gotten around to discussing forming a committee to study the issue of extending the right to repair to electronics (still stuck in the house). In other words, still years away 😑 https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/7xq4zz/massachusetts-senate-passes-resolution-to-do-in-depth-study-on-right-to-repair

Barenaked Ladies "One Week" but about a file and fixity checking

Interesting that youtube-dl still uses stream fragments for download even when there's a direct download link (at least for Vimeo). I guess the assumption of the tool is you'll always need to wrest the video from a closed platform

rocking 7 mb/s download speed today ⏱ 👀 😴

Something tells me this libguide hasn't been updated in a while https://digipres.club/media/fK7KUi-vJi32la2KXKE

Has anyone been to _the_ Digital Initiatives Symposium? And was it worth it? A colleague of mine wants us to submit a proposal https://digital.sandiego.edu/symposium/

kryofluckery - (n.) messing around with kryoflux until you can get a floppy disk to read or die trying

Awesome - mold eaten slides that were scanned creating new art volmeur.com #ipres2018

Jimmy Fournier discussing preserving interactive works using webrecorder and standardizing their preservation practice with audiovisual works. He'll talk more on thursday morning about storytelling in digital preservation #ipres2018