Date   : Wed, 04 Dec 2002 03:37:51 +0100
From   : "Isabel & Robert" <rschmidt@...>
Subject: Re: DIGITAL DOMESDAY BOOK GETS NEW LIFE

> Which must make the first of my former secondary schools (All Hallows,
Aldershot) look 
> stupid, because I browsed the Domesday discs there only around 10
years ago.

And the person who got the Domesday system from eBay told me he has
spent quite some time browsing it recently, with practically no
problems.  
He must be looking most stupid of all... :-D  (...not!)

A typical press release exaggeration... it *was* a race against hardware
deterioration, but there is still a working number of those LD players
around.  The Beeb has been emulated for almost 10 years - no problem
there, and plugging in a virtual LD driver can't have been to hard.  The
tough part must have been "ripping" the digital and analogue data off
the disc, and storing it in a suitable fashion/quality readable by that
driver.  And even that sounds straightforward.

I'm curious as to how much data those discs comprise - anyone know?

> Is there any publically available way to browse the project now? Will
it be available on 
> CD or DVD or whatever?

I hope so, but I've seen no indication to that effect, yet :-(


Robert