Hackaday: Zip-Drive Emulator Puts Big Disks Back On LPT. “[Minh Danh] is one of those who still has affection for Zip drives, and when his parallel port Zip 100 drive started to give up the ghost last year, he decided to do something bold: reverse engineer it, and produce an emulator. First software, and then in hardware.”

University of New Mexico: Bringing hundreds of New Mexico Spanish archives online. “Center for Southwest Research (CSWR) archivist Samuel Sisneros and Center for Regional Studies fellow María Feliza Monta-Jameson are at the helm of the New Mexico Spanish Language Archival Recovery Project. They are working to preserve archival collections of audio and video interviews of native New Mexico […]

Popular Science: The archivist preserving decaying floppy disks. “In collaboration with retro computing enthusiasts who have built specialized floppy-imaging tools, [Leontien Talboom]’s recovered data from hundreds of historically significant disks in the library’s collection—including previously inaccessible lectures by physicist Stephen Hawking.”

The Concordian: Concordia’s Visual Collections Repository shrinks services amid funding deficits. “Concordia’s Visual Collection Repository (VCR) has faced significant budget cuts from the Faculty of Fine Arts, making it difficult for the repository to sustainably provide access to its resources. The repository is the custodian of diverse archival moving image collections — housed in […]

University of Miami: Preserving the legacy of the first woman US attorney general. “Through a major preservation effort led by University of Miami Libraries, damaged physical media from the Janet Reno Papers have been digitized and recently made available to the public, offering deeper insight into the former attorney general’s life and legacy.”

#MediaHistory: 36 years ago tonight (1990), AFHV debuted as a weekly series on ABC! 📹

Before YouTube, this was our viral video fix. Bob Saget’s voices, the sliding whistle sound effects, and the giant camcorders.

Did your family ever send a tape in?

#AFHV #90sTV #BobSaget #VintageMedia

The Register: Danish dev delights kid by turning floppy drive into easy TV remote . “Smart TV UIs are hard enough for adults to navigate, let alone preschoolers. When his three-year-old couldn’t learn to navigate with a remote, one Danish computer scientist did what any enterprising creator would do: He turned an old floppy disk drive into a kid-friendly content controller that starts streams […]

Without Why: The Hubert Dreyfus Audio Archive Project. “A massive trove of legendary lectures by philosopher Hubert L. Dreyfus is currently confined to aging cassette tapes in a closet in the Berkeley Hills. With your support, we can build a professionally curated audio archive that preserves this irreplaceable material and makes it accessible to new generations of listeners. Dreyfus’s ideas […]

MakeUseOf: This free app turned my phone into a portable film scanner. “As someone taking on the task of preserving my family’s photo collection and getting into the world of half-frame film photography in 2025, I was surprised to find FilmBox surpassed my expectations.”