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Digital archivists: technological custodians of human history | Ars Technica Game creator Jordan Mechner wanted to teach the next generation. So the man behind the groundbreaking 1989 Apple II game *Prince of Persia* recently posted his original 6052 assembly source code<http://jordanmechner.com/blog/2012/04/source/>to Github. But getting the code from decades-old floppy disks "covered with dust" was no simple task. Mechner employed the services of vintage computer expert Tony Diaz and digital archivist Jason Scott to extract the bits from the floppies and assemble it into a readable code file. http://bit.ly/JK3Nun Source: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/05/digital-archivists-technological-custodians-of-human-history/ See if people are clicking on this link: http://bit.ly/JK3Nun+ Try the bitly.com sidebar to see who is talking about a page on the web: http://bitly.com/pages/sidebar -- Peter Kurilecz CRM CA [log in to unmask] Richmond, Va http://twitter.com/RAINbyte http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/RAINbyte/ http://paper.li/RAINbyte/rainbyte http://pinterest.com/pakurilecz/archives/ http://pinterest.com/pakurilecz/records-management/ Information not relevant for my reply has been deleted to reduce the electronic footprint and to save the sanity of digest subscribers Contact the list owner for assistance at [log in to unmask] For information about joining, leaving and suspending mail (eg during a holiday) see the list website at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=archives-nra