#archiveteam 2013-03-06,Wed

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00:38 🔗 arkhive I've got over 150 CED SelectaVision VideoDiscs for free and am wondering if I should rip them? If so, any recommendations? I have a player already and tons of storage. Should I look into a better player or is it fine as is given the quality in the first place?
00:40 🔗 SketchCow ----------------------------------
00:41 🔗 SketchCow OK SO
00:41 🔗 SketchCow Hugo Chavez has died.
00:41 🔗 SketchCow See ya, Hugo
00:41 🔗 SketchCow Can someone please spider his government and personal (if known) sites?
00:41 🔗 SketchCow ----------------------------------
00:41 🔗 chronomex arkhive: that'd be neat, I guess
01:14 🔗 jfranusic arkhive: I read the wikipedia entry on those. They are ANALOG, ZOMG
01:17 🔗 arkhive jfranmusic: ?
01:19 🔗 arkhive jfranusic: is that not good?
01:20 🔗 dashcloud I think he's really surprised at an analog disc format
01:21 🔗 arkhive oh
01:22 🔗 arkhive They are pretty cool. I have two versions of Treasure Island on them. Along with
01:22 🔗 arkhive Star Trek and Alien movie
01:32 🔗 chronomex I watched 2001 on CEV once
01:33 🔗 jfranusic arkhive: dashcloud is right, I was just surprised. When you showed me the disk at the archive, we thought that it was a contactless format. Turns out it's not!
01:33 🔗 jfranusic The needles needed to be replaced. And IIRC, the format was in development for like, 20 years!
01:36 🔗 chronomex it's got weird noise, compared to vhs
01:36 🔗 arkhive All my stuff works :) Ya I think I have 2001 Space Odyssey on CED, too. But any suggestions or such on how to do it, etc... Let me know.
04:58 🔗 lemonkey http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/187868/Stanford_to_digitally_archive_priceless_collection_of_15000_old_games.php?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+GamasutraNews+%28Gamasutra+News%29#.UTbM9-tAT8Q
05:28 🔗 arkhive lemonkey: That's pretty cool.
07:22 🔗 SketchCow The famous collection
07:23 🔗 SketchCow Note they sat on it for 14 years
07:23 🔗 SketchCow Fretting
07:23 🔗 SketchCow http://archive.org/search.php?query=collection%3Atosec&sort=-publicdate still coming together.
07:23 🔗 SketchCow I've alerted the dev about the zip bug.
07:39 🔗 godane SketchCow: zip bug?
07:59 🔗 SketchCow Minor thing, ignore
18:50 🔗 Knueb sup
18:50 🔗 SketchCow IRC
18:51 🔗 Knueb so...
18:51 🔗 Knueb you guise rescue shit?
18:56 🔗 Smiley yah
18:56 🔗 Smiley Want to Join? Discuss? Laugh at us?
18:56 🔗 Knueb kewl
18:57 🔗 Knueb hmmmmm
18:57 🔗 Knueb well
18:58 🔗 Knueb join? dont have the skillz
18:58 🔗 Knueb discuss... perhaps
18:58 🔗 Smiley Knueb: you can join simply by running a VM in virtual box, and helping raise awareness.
18:58 🔗 Knueb laugh.... you got jokes?
18:59 🔗 Smiley What do you call a company bombing out at 742MPH?
18:59 🔗 Knueb ?
18:59 🔗 Smiley the answer will be revealed in #archiveteam-bs as thats our off topic channel
18:59 🔗 Knueb ok i go there as im just here to bs
18:59 🔗 Knueb thanks
19:43 🔗 SketchCow Just found out CERN is going to put up the first webpage, at the original address, coming soon.
19:43 🔗 Ymgve same server software too?
19:44 🔗 SketchCow OK, so.
19:44 🔗 SketchCow I have no inside knowledge, but I'd assume no.
19:44 🔗 SketchCow original software was on a NeXT and crashed with multi-threading
19:45 🔗 Smiley :O
20:12 🔗 SketchCow Anyone who wants to help me with the TOSEC descriptions, #iatosec

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