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Remembering the Poly-1: What NZ’s forgotten home-grown school computer can teach us about state-led innovation Analysis - The story of the Poly-1 has enduring lessons about research and innovation policy - and the importance of multidisciplinary collaboration.

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Yeah. It's just sitting there. Heavy as a battleship.

Not just the Constitution: How the National Archives protects billions of historical documents It's not just home to the U.S.'s founding documents. The National Archives safeguards about 13.5 billion paper records, including the check used to buy Alaska and Adolf Hitler's will.

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Look what I found in a 20+ year old comic book!

How to stop LinkedIn from training AI with your data | www.interest.co.nz/technology/1...

#7 Equity Begins🗺️at Home Hello, Everyone. It’s been a few months, and I’m now temporarily situated on the other side of the world in the Northern Hemisphere on sabbatical - been catching up with family and friends, and have a...

New blog post from N Stillman -- theglobalfairspace.com/2024/09/17/e... Equity Begins at Home

Experiment to plug Te Papa collections into ChatGPT | Te Papa’s Blog It would be hard to miss that Artificial Intelligence (AI) has seen an exponential rise in programming, availability, use, and debate in the last few years. Here at Te Papa, we’ve been looking at p…

Experiment to plug Te Papa collections into ChatGPT blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2024/08/22/e...

The race to save our online lives from a digital dark age We’re making more data than ever. What can—and should—we save for future generations? And will they be able to understand it?

"The race to save our online lives from a digital dark age" www.technologyreview.com/2024/08/19/1...

Dealing with killer collections - Archives New Zealand www.thepost.co.nz/culture/3503...

Vintage Robot - A Rare Find! | Trade Me Marketplace This Healthkit HERO 2000 (ET-19) is considered to be a collectors item due to its rarity. It dates from the 1980s, and only 3,000 were produced. It was an ed...

Vintage Zenith / Heathkit HERO 2000 robot for sale! www.trademe.co.nz/a/marketplac...

GOVIS 2024 - Trust to Innovate -- tickets still available! Gonna be a great conference. www.govis.org.nz/conference-2...

Does anyone have a spare CN50 - 50 pin SCSI terminator I can have? Bonus if you have tested it and KNOW it is good. #digitalpreservation

GitHub - KBNLresearch/tapeimgr: Simple tape imaging and extraction tool Simple tape imaging and extraction tool. Contribute to KBNLresearch/tapeimgr development by creating an account on GitHub.

Installed Debian 12 on a new machine. Had to swap out the SCSI card until I found one that terminated correctly. After much hassle I got Python3 installed and set up a venv. Got tapeimgr installed and running. ... but it doesn't see the tape drive. Disappointment. github.com/KBNLresearch...

How electricity is fed to the Cook Strait submarine cable. Surveying for the line; building the bridges, roads, and camps needed; erecting a tower above Benm... THE FIRST HALF-MILLION VOLT D.C. TRANSMISSION LINE (1965) (AAPG W3606/1161)

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Me? Personally?

DUDE!

Thank you @euanc.bsky.social - the King of "dd"! We got stuff off a tape! Don't know what it is we've got yet, but we've got *something*!

I need to master mt (1), mount (8) and DD (1) - thank you FreeBSD man pages! man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi

WordPad - Wikipedia

RIP MS WordPad en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordPad "There will be no successor."

Anyone got an old copy of SCO Unix laying around?

AT&T 1600 / 6250 9-Track Tape Drive

... and with a little command line magic I was able to mount a 9-track tape using FreeBSD. Of course, the tape was blank ...

Today we received an NCR System 3400 computer. "System 3400 models [...] support DOS, OS/2, SCO UNIX, and UNiX System V Release 4.0." -- which OS should I use first? ps-2.kev009.com/ncr3xxx/thec...

Having *some* success with FreeBSD. But it does funny things with DNS nameservers when grabbing a lease from a DHCP server ...

"The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk

The high-profile creator of magnetic media gave it up nearly three decades ago" spectrum.ieee.org/3m-floppy

I have spent the day attempting to install packages onto a FreeBSD machine off DVD because the internet doesn't work. 51% thrilling / 49% frustrating.

As it turns out, it has happened before! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

I'd give that answer a 7/10