From: Steve Nickolas <usotsuki@buric.co>
To: Peter Jeremy <peter@rulingia.com>
Cc: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] [tuhs] Computer history preservation
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 03:46:15 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.02.1909170336190.71302@frieza.hoshinet.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190917002825.GA15016@server.rulingia.com>
On Tue, 17 Sep 2019, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> 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).
Toei Animation wiped the audio masters for Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z.
What remains is low-quality optical audio from film prints. (They did the
same for Dragon Ball GT but some TV stations managed to preserve the
audio, so it's not as much of a problem as it is for the previous series.)
-uso.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-17 7:46 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
2019-09-17 7:46 ` Steve Nickolas [this message]
2019-09-17 5:21 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2019-09-17 15:33 ` Clem Cole
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