Return-Path: <sentto-279987-4555-1015255824-fc=all.net@returns.groups.yahoo.com> Delivered-To: fc@all.net Received: from 204.181.12.215 [204.181.12.215] by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.7.4) for fc@localhost (single-drop); Mon, 04 Mar 2002 07:32:09 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 31739 invoked by uid 510); 4 Mar 2002 15:30:45 -0000 Received: from n2.groups.yahoo.com (216.115.96.52) by all.net with SMTP; 4 Mar 2002 15:30:45 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-4555-1015255824-fc=all.net@returns.groups.yahoo.com Received: from [216.115.97.165] by n2.groups.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 04 Mar 2002 15:30:24 -0000 X-Sender: fc@red.all.net X-Apparently-To: iwar@onelist.com Received: (EGP: unknown); 4 Mar 2002 15:30:23 -0000 Received: (qmail 13514 invoked from network); 4 Mar 2002 15:30:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.167) by m11.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 4 Mar 2002 15:30:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO red.all.net) (12.232.72.152) by mta1.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 4 Mar 2002 15:30:23 -0000 Received: (from fc@localhost) by red.all.net (8.11.2/8.11.2) id g24FUwY05285 for iwar@onelist.com; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 07:30:58 -0800 Message-Id: <200203041530.g24FUwY05285@red.all.net> To: iwar@onelist.com (Information Warfare Mailing List) Organization: I'm not allowed to say X-Mailer: don't even ask X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] From: Fred Cohen <fc@all.net> X-Yahoo-Profile: fcallnet Mailing-List: list iwar@yahoogroups.com; contact iwar-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list iwar@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:iwar-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com> Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 07:30:58 -0800 (PST) Subject: [iwar] [fc:Ancient.Domesday.Book.outlives.electronic.version] Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Ancient Domesday Book outlives electronic version <a href="http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_534847.html?menu=news.latestheadlines">http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_534847.html?menu=news.latestheadlines> An electronic version of the Domesday Book compiled in 1986 is now unreadable. The computers needed to read the discs of the £2.5 million BBC Domesday Project are now obsolete. While the original Domesday Book compiled in 1086 is in fine condition in the Public Record Office, Kew. The information stored on the laser discs which is the equivalent of several sets of encyclopedia's is now impossible to access, reports The Observer. "It is ironic but the 15-year-old version is unreadable, while the ancient one is still in perfectly usable," said computer expert Paul Wheatley. "We're lucky Shakespeare didn't write on an old PC." He has now started work on Camileon, a program aimed at recovering the data on the Domesday discs. "We have got a couple of rather scratchy pairs of discs and we are confident we will eventually be able to read all their images, maps and text," he said. "Unfortunately, we don't know what we will do after that. We could store the data on desktop computers - but they are likely to become redundant in a few years. "That means we have to find a way to emulate this data, in other words to turn into a form that can be used no matter what is the computer format of the future. That is the real goal of this project." ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Tiny Wireless Camera under $80! Order Now! FREE VCR Commander! Click Here - Only 1 Day Left! http://us.click.yahoo.com/nuyOHD/7.PDAA/yigFAA/kgFolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ------------------ http://all.net/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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