Date   : Thu, 11 Jan 2001 19:12:28 +0000
From   : Ben Newsam <ben@...>
Subject: Re: Emulation, long term preservation and Domesday

In message <3A5DE369.88CADAF5@...>, Paul Wheatley
<p.r.wheatley@...> writes
>I thought some of you guys might be interested in this draft
>paper we've been working on.
>
>http://129.11.152.25/camileon/ep5.html
>
>In it we aim to develop a strategy for producing emulators for use in the
>preservation world. In particular we look at a method of ensuring what we
>produce is maintainable long into the future (i.e regardless of the
>inevitable obsolecency of current hardware and software).
>
>This strategy is likely to be developed further in our work on BBC Domesday.

What strategies have you developed for peripherals? I ask because of my
involvement in controlling things via the BBC micro, particularly the
BBC Buggy, which IMO is worthy of preservation in its own right, and of
course attaching it to a PC is an entirely different kettle of fish.
-- 
Ben