Digital Media Archaeology in Practice

Data Preservation Bootcamp

Day 1 (9 April)

• Working with floppy disks

  • Introduction to the formats

  • Making disk images with Kryoflux

  • Extracting files from disk images

  • Accessing disk images in emulators

• Working with hard drives

  • Introduction to the interface formats

  • Working with write-blockers

  • Making disk images with FTKimager

• Working with the bagit format

  • creating

  • validating

  • using the python module for custom tools and workflows

  • using a version control system for your code

Day 2 (10 April)

• Working with emulators

• Prepping / Loading disk images

• CRT emulation

• Building custom controls for emulators

• Documentation / analysis and comparison practices

• Storage best practices

Open atelier: vintage computer hardware care & data retrieval

Day 3 (11 April)

• Classic architectures of legacy computers

• Preservation and repair

  • Diagnosis of failure     

  • Common Causes

  • Examples

  • Tracing faulty components and failure origins (Tools and Techniques)    

• Reading old media and recovery techniques

  • 3.5 inch" , 5.25" floppies, Zip and Jazz discs, Syquest ...     

  • Hardware / software required

• Open restoration workshop

  • Come to get back content from old digital media.

  • Come and check your defective vintage computer with an expert