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From: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] [tuhs] Computer history preservation
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 09:44:03 +1000 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.1909170942420.18105@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CMM.0.95.0.1568670516.beebe@gamma.math.utah.edu>

On Mon, 16 Sep 2019, Nelson H. F. Beebe 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.

Indeed; quite shameful, really.

-- Dave

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-09-16 23:44 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 [this message]
2019-09-17  0:28 ` Peter Jeremy
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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