

Digital Domesday Rescued By Emulation 395
eefsee writes "The BBC announced that the Digital Domesday project which had become unusable has now been revived thanks to the successful emulation of a 1980's era Acorn computer. Folks at Leeds University and University of Michigan did the emulation work. This is just one early indication of how difficult it will be to maintain our digital heritage. Note that the printed Domesday Book, on which the digital project was modeled, is still quite accessible after almost 1000 years."
copyright/DMCA issues? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Any Brits out there? (Score:3, Funny)
Blame the French.
Our digital heritage? (Score:3, Funny)
If something is truly of importance, it will be ported forward to new technologies before the existing technology becomes so out of date that recovering it becomes a Herculian effort, or it will also co-exist in a more future-proof medium. Otherwise it's simply dead data that's more than likely never going to have a need to be accessed again.... not every bit needs to be held forever.
Would the world have stopped turning if this little chunk of history gone unrecovered? No. Are there other forms of media (books, videos, music) from the 1980's that would have answered the same questions about culture and society that the data in this archive answers? Definately.
Re:Phew (Score:2, Funny)
Abandonware (Score:4, Funny)
Rumor has it that MAME 0.7 [mame.net] will support it.
Re:Phew (Score:2, Funny)
Re:copyright/DMCA issues? (Score:3, Funny)
The Professor (Score:5, Funny)
Damn, and I thought the Professor was all that by making a radio out of a coconut. A computer in an acorn? DAMN!
Re:So why (Score:2, Funny)
interestingly a large number of NT based demos were not running due to DHCP errors - many of them displaying the errors prominently on huge projectors...
Hmmm... that could explain something. On my last visit, Charles Babbage's Difference Engine seemed to be hung up as well. It just sat there motionless the whole time I watched it. I suppose it might have been experiencing the same DHCP errors as the NT boxes.
Ulimate Revenge (Score:4, Funny)
I can see it all now. LUGs getting together to make testimonial stone glyphs testifying to the Ages their opinions of the character of their least favorite politician or software company.
You get the idea. Also applies to politicians.
have a blast. Have it placed on you tombstone or something. or in the side of a cliff.
Re:DRM (Score:5, Funny)
Region Error
Re:Domesday? (Score:4, Funny)
Stupid Sonny Bono...
Re:Original Domesday is not quite accessible (Score:1, Funny)
Does anyone know how much they would charge for a cluster of these?