Scientists decode time capsule from 1980s

[ECOslin]

http://www.news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=1340622002

Scientists have decoded a time capsule from the 1980s and were amazed how everything was different back then.

Edward

[ECOslin]

It's also a story of how someone chose a media to store data and the reader became obsolete and unavailable.

Edward

[ThomasC22]

Interesting, although 20 years seem like a short time line for a TimeCapsule :?

As for the format, it's nice now that we can store both an indestructable data source and the means to play it in a relatively small container (that is provided power sockets are still around :o )

[ECOslin]

They lost the means to play it. Oops!

It seems to happen more often, 'Jeff' left the company, I think he had the only password to the servers.

Or, We collected data and encrypted it(I think this was the Norweigian History thing.)

I did tech support, help desk, disaster recovery and data recovery at the last company I worked at. When I left I took all my useful toys(zip, cf, adapters, special cables and file recover tools) off the PC I had been using. The company didn't own them, I paid for the licenses and stuff. See-ya.

Edward