Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 17, No. 475.
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Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 09:10:07 +0000
From: Mícheál Mac an Airchinnigh <mmaa@eircom.net>
Subject: Re: 17.470 digital preservation
On Thursday, December 18, 2003, at 08:27 AM, Humanist Discussion Group (by
way of Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>) wrote:
> Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 17, No. 470.
> Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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> Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 08:18:35 +0000
> From: Maurizio Lana <m.lana@lett.unipmn.it>
> >
>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
>
>Maurizio Lana - ricercatore
>Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici - Universitŕ del Piemonte Orientale a
>Vercelli
>via Manzoni 8, I-13100 Vercelli
>+39 347 7370925
This provokes me ... strongly ... as a Computer Scientist!
The industrial flow is irrelevant to the reconstruction
of the Sinclair Z80 or anything else of a similar sort
as long as the "blueprints" (hardware, software) exist.
Those individuals who still produce "hand-crafted computers"
could build ...
But more importantly, we can *emulate* machines such as
the Sinclair Z80, if we want to!
By "emulate" we mean to run a Virtual computing system on another
computing system. For example, it is common
for a Mac to run windows and unix software today!
regards,
Mícheál
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