Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 17, No. 470.
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Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 08:18:35 +0000
From: Maurizio Lana <m.lana@lett.unipmn.it>
Subject: Re: 17.465 digital preservation
At 12.14 16/12/2003, Spencer Tasker <spencer@tasker.info> wrote:
>Maurizio Lana correctly identified some of the false assumptions
>of the Garfinkel article, however, there are a couple of points
>which I should like to add.
[...]
I too would like to add something to the discussion, and would like to
point all of the humanists who can read in italian to the following article:
"attenti, col digitale non si tramanda" (something like "beware, what's
digital can't be left as a legacy"),
http://www.apogeonline.com/webzine/2003/12/11/01/200312110101, coming from
the newsletter "apogeonline", and written by Paolo Attivissimo
(www.attivissimo.org).
He points out that while one could think of rebuilding from scratch an old
grammophone, and actually do it, the same is not true for - say - an old
Sinclair Z80, or any piece of electronic hardware, after the stop of the
industrial flow which produced it.
maurizio
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