Hacker News with Generative AI: Archives

Can You Read This Cursive Handwriting? The National Archives Wants Your Help (smithsonianmag.com)
The National Archives is brimming with historical documents written in cursive, including some that date back more than 200 years. But these texts can be difficult to read and understand—particularly for Americans who never learned cursive in school.

History, Archives, Language, Education

42 points by lemonberry 1 hour ago | 45 comments

GOG Joins European Federation of Game Archives, Museums & Preservation Projects (gamingonlinux.com)
GOG made a press announcement today to note they've joined the European Federation of Game Archives, Museums and Preservation Projects (EFGAMP).

Gaming, Preservation, Archives, Museums, Europe

244 points by LorenDB 2 days ago | 38 comments

Dtack Grounded archive (1981-1985) (easy68k.com)

Retro Computing, History, Programming, Archives

40 points by basementcat 11 days ago | 20 comments

Art Forms in Nature / Ernst Haeckel 100 Plates 300 Dpi Scans (archive.org)
Ask the publishers to restore access to 500,000+ books.

Art, Nature, History, Books, Archives

4 points by MaysonL 18 days ago | 0 comments

Minutes of a Meeting Held at Gear Ratio on Tuesday 13 June 78 [pdf] (forgottenweapons.com)

History, Meetings, Firearms, Archives, Documents

35 points by akehrer 27 days ago | 8 comments

Classic Computer Magazines (archive.org)

Computing, History, Magazines, Archives

30 points by walterbell 30 days ago | 10 comments

Charles de Gaulle manuscripts discovered in a safe (smithsonianmag.com)
A Forgotten Collection of Charles de Gaulle’s Personal Letters, Speeches and Manuscripts Has Been Discovered in a Safe

History, France, Archives

119 points by Thevet 33 days ago | 115 comments

Issues of '50s Magazine Galaxy Science Fiction (archive.org)

Science Fiction, Magazines, Archives

11 points by coloneltcb 48 days ago | 4 comments

Steve Jobs Archive (stevejobsarchive.com)
The Steve Jobs Archive is the authoritative home for Steve’s story and a resource for new generations eager to make their own mark.

Steve Jobs, Biography, Technology, History, Archives

20 points by tzury 61 days ago | 0 comments

Tinfoil.com – Dedicated to the preservation of early recorded sounds (tinfoil.com)
— Dedicated to the preservation of early recorded sounds —

History, Audio, Digital Preservation, Archives

79 points by cenazoic 67 days ago | 24 comments

Getting lost and found in the Bob Dylan archives (bookforum.com)
YOU OPEN BOX 34, take the typescript from its folder. You can see right away that the song is pretty much finished. He’s got the first four verses locked in, save one lingering question about Ma. Should she be forty but say she’s twenty-four, or eighty claiming sixty-four? Or what if she’s twenty but wants you to think she’s sixty-four? Is that better? Nah.

Music, Bob Dylan, Archives, Songwriting

34 points by bookofjoe 75 days ago | 2 comments

Archive of wiki.bash-hackers.org (github.com/flokoe)
The popular wiki.bash-hackers.org (original IP address: 83.243.40.67) site had its DNS expire in April 2023.

Web Development, Software, Archives, DNS

5 points by sipofwater 76 days ago | 1 comments

Show HN: Ratarmount 1.0.0 – Rapid access to large archives via a FUSE filesystem (github.com/mxmlnkn)
Ratarmount collects all file positions inside a TAR so that it can easily jump to and read from any file without extracting it.

Software, Filesystems, Archives, Open Source

76 points by mxmlnkn 78 days ago | 6 comments

Kliktopia Archive (kliktopia.org)
Trying to find an old Klik game or have old Klik games to be preserved? You've come to the right place!

Gaming, Archives, Preservation

4 points by RGamma 79 days ago | 1 comments

More Basic Computer Games (archive.org)
Ask the publishers to restore access to 500,000+ books.

Computer Games, Digital Preservation, Archives

3 points by warrenm 81 days ago | 1 comments

Popular Science Magazine Archives, May 1872-March 2009 (books.google.com)
Popular Science gives our readers the information and tools to improve their technology and their world.

Science, Magazines, Archives, History

144 points by bookofjoe 103 days ago | 56 comments

Radio Shack Catalog Archive (1939-2011) (radioshackcatalogs.com)
In the virtual corridors of RadioShackCatalogs.com, a digital archive unfolds like a time capsule, preserving the history of RadioShack from its inception in 1921.

History, Technology, Retail, Archives

229 points by rmason 108 days ago | 105 comments

A Guide to Imaging Obscure Floppy Disk Formats (zenodo.org)
Memory institutions are grappling with the challenges posed by digital carriers in their collections. While solutions for more recent carriers like hard drives, optical discs, and flash storage are readily available, the landscape becomes trickier when dealing with older formats such as floppy disks.

Digital Preservation, Data Storage, Floppy Disks, Archives

6 points by zdw 111 days ago | 0 comments

I have 2000 old VHS tapes in my garage and don't know what to do with them (jamesomalley.co.uk)
tl;dr: I have approximately 2000 VHS tapes containing off-air recordings of British TV in the last 90s and early 2000s in my garage. If you work for, or are connected with an archive that might be interested in taking them and saving the contents for posterity, I would love to talk to you. Please get in touch!

Media Preservation, Television, History, UK, Archives

326 points by keybits 115 days ago | 312 comments

Omni, the Iconic Sci-Fi Magazine, Digitized in High-Resolution (2017) (openculture.com)
Omni, the Iconic Sci-Fi Magazine, Now Digitized in High-Resolution and Available Online

Sci-Fi, Magazines, Digitalization, Archives, History

58 points by walterbell 115 days ago | 6 comments

How do archivists package things? The battle of the boxes (peelarchivesblog.com)
It’s been a while since we posted one of our articles pulling back the curtains on archival work. To make up for that, here’s a special edition of our popular Archives FAQs and Facts series. For the first time, we’ll compare how archivists in two countries do things a little differently to achieve a common goal.

Archives, Preservation, History, Comparison

172 points by bookofjoe 119 days ago | 27 comments

The Working Archivist's Guide to Enthusiast CD-ROM Archiving Tools (mistys-internet.website)
I’ve seen a lot of professional archivists who use flux disc image archiving techniques for their collections—a technique in which a specialized floppy controller captures the raw signal coming from the floppy drive so that it can be preserved and decoded in software. I haven’t, however, seen many archivists using enthusiast-developed low-level reading techniques for CD-ROM.

CD-ROM, Digital Preservation, Archives, Software

27 points by zdw 124 days ago | 2 comments

Hawking Archive made available to historians and researchers (cam.ac.uk)

Science, History, Archives, Research

44 points by timthorn 138 days ago | 12 comments

Cassette Tape Archive (tapedeck.org)

Cassette Tapes, Music, Archives

132 points by bookofjoe 140 days ago | 15 comments

Rearchiving 2M hours of digital radio, a comprehensive process (digitalpreservation-blog.nb.no)

Digital Preservation, Archives, Radio, Data Management

144 points by todsacerdoti 141 days ago | 36 comments

The first snapshot of Hacker News on Archive.org (archive.org)