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This is a good demonstration of why, if you're saving/archiving/safeguarding important code, that you save the code, the toolchain, environment and hardware. Im
by nfnaaron 17y ago
This is a good demonstration of why, if you're saving/archiving/safeguarding important code, that you save the code, the toolchain, environment and hardware. Important enough to make all that effort, anyway. Like maybe climate research code, that kind of important and long-term relevant.
- ascuttlefish 17y agoI work in an archives and for the reasons you mention many archives--with the exception of various national and large-scale archives--are failing in their efforts to preserve born digital records. It's a thorny problem, really. In many cases, we have to preserve hardware required to decode information--think u-matic tape players, 5.25" floppies, Iomega zip drives, etc.--as well as software to decode the information on the files.
- bdr 17y agoCould you store VMs?