John,
I checked up on my install of CaptureOne on the PowerBook and realised I hadn't activated the software online. I duly did so but it occurred to me that in terms of archival of software, when and if a particular company's activation server gets turned off how would you rebuild a machine to the state you had it say 2003?
Adobe recently turned off the server that activated CS2 and older, but did allow users with a genuine licence to install the software by downloading an online activation free version.
Should we (maybe via the MCG) be lobbying companies to give the museum sector these kinds of options for old software in future or take a different approach which should be a managed migration of files? Or both? Clearly this wouldn't be an easy task.
Tony
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Government Art Collection
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Tony - Clearly, great minds think alike...
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John,
To offer an answer to your old Mac OS/chassis question, we have a 2003 vintage PPC Mac Powerbook that's running OS 10.3.9 in order to enable our PhaseOne digital back software from that time to run and access the raw camera files. Thankfully PhaseOne's raw camera files from that time seem perfectly happy with the latest version of their software, but you never know hence the Powerbook.
I also run a headless PPC Mac Mini with OS 10.5 to keep our old Nikon slide scanner working, I just dial in to it using the screen share facility and scan away... works with Mavericks no problem.
Tony
Government Art Collection
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John
Here's a good link about unravelling old floppies: http://www.spellboundblog.com/2011/07/25/rescuing-5-25-floppy-disks-from-oblivion/
N.B. From a digital preservation point of view, where you've got old digital material, it may be good policy to keep a workshop PC chassis in house, so that old bits and pieces of kit can be plugged in to access obsolete media. Maybe a Pentium running a pre-Windows VISTA OS, so you've got support for optical (Iomega zip drives, CD-ROM etc) and floppy drives onboard.
As you might have seen on eBay, there are still plenty of new, old stock floppy drives around, but as the blog post above, and other posters have pointed out, it's the PC or mac motherboard which is the problem, not the peripherals.
What would be the equivalent old mac chassis/OS combinations, I wonder?
All best
Jon
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Subject: [MCG] Reading 5.25 Floppy Discs
Date: Fri, Mar 14, 2014 13:50
A colleague in the Museum has asked if we might be able to recover data from a 5.25 inch floppy disc.
Like many of you we have disposed of all the devices we had that used this format but I wondered if anyone here might be able to suggest someone who still has the ability to read these discs ?
John
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