Should’ve added that disc preservation is really not the main goal.

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> On Oct 19, 2025, at 17:14, Wayne S <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Is oxbridge also cambridge?
> It looks to me that someone needed a grant and decided that preserving the 
> Hawking floppy disks was of some value and that would help to get a grant.
> 
> 
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>> On Oct 19, 2025, at 17:08, Fred Cisin via cctalk <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> 
>>>>>>> https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/future-nostalgia
>> 
>>>> On Sun, 19 Oct 2025, Wayne S via cctalk wrote:
>>> Reading their home page, they really don’t have a clue!
>> 
>> Keep in mind, that Oxbridge is a university.  SOME academics do not respect 
>> knowledge and techniques developed and used in industry or non-academic 
>> institutions.
>> "Not invented here"
>> I doubt that they have even sought out existing disk format conversions 
>> services and experts.
>> 
>> 
>> So, they would be looking for academic (peer reviewed?) papers about things 
>> such as how to bake disks, rather than looking for old posts by
>> Chuck.
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Grumpy Ol' Fred             [email protected]

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