From: Peter Jeremy <peter@rulingia.com>
To: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" <beebe@math.utah.edu>
Cc: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] [tuhs] Computer history preservation
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 10:28:25 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190917002825.GA15016@server.rulingia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CMM.0.95.0.1568670516.beebe@gamma.math.utah.edu>
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On 2019-Sep-16 15:48:36 -0600, "Nelson H. F. Beebe" <beebe@math.utah.edu> wrote:
>I came across an article today about another major industry that has
>been exceedingly careless about preserving its history:
>
> Wipe Out: When the BBC Kept Erasing Its Own History
> https://getpocket.com/explore/item/wipe-out-when-the-bbc-kept-erasing-its-own-history
>
>It is a must-read for Dr Who fans on this list.
It didn't only affect TV, much of The Goons originals were also destroyed (at least
one episode now sold by the BBC is an off-air recording by a fan because that's the
best extant copy).
And NASA destroyed the tapes holding the original Apollo 11 moonwalk
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11_missing_tapes).
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Peter Jeremy
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-17 0:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-16 21:48 Nelson H. F. Beebe
2019-09-16 22:24 ` Gregg Levine
2019-09-16 23:44 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-09-17 0:28 ` Peter Jeremy [this message]
2019-09-17 7:46 ` Steve Nickolas
2019-09-17 5:21 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2019-09-17 15:33 ` Clem Cole
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