Oxbridge is an umbrella term for Oxford and Cambridge Universities; cf Ivy League - they think of themselves as the first tier ...
As a Brit, prima facie, the Cambridge University Library's efforts at floppy disk curation are a bit embarasing, does anyone have a feedback path https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20251009-rescuing-knowledge-trapped-on-old-floppy-disks Martin -----Original Message----- From: Wayne S via cctalk [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 20 October 2025 00:14 To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <[email protected]> Cc: Wayne S <[email protected]> Subject: [cctalk] Re: Cambridge University Library 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. Sent from my iPhone > 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]
