Date : Wed, 29 Apr 2009 09:53:56 +0100
From : CALITTLEFIEL@... (Littlefield Aaron)
Subject: Domesday Preservation
Does anybody know how successful the Camileon Project was?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2534391.stm
>From what I could gather online, attempts were made to transfer data
from the laserdiscs to some other format. I've no idea what happened to
the data or how involved the government was; from the conversations I've
been hearing - I'd welcome any sort of plan to petition the government
or setup some form of access for potential users for the original
Domesday data.
It's the one piece of Acorn/BBC hardware I'd love to see again (please
if there is a South Computer Show - bring one! Another item I always
wanted as a boy was the Watford Electronics Speech Sythesiser...
The online petition system sounds like a good idea.
Aaron
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