19 Oct
2025
19 Oct
'25
7:34 p.m.
Oxbridge is an umbrella term for Oxford and Cambridge Universities; cf Ivy League - they
think of themselves as the first tier ...
As a Brit, prima facie, the Cambridge University Library's efforts at floppy disk
curation are a bit embarasing, does anyone have a feedback path
https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20251009-rescuing-knowledge-trapped-on…
Martin
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Is oxbridge also cambridge?
It looks to me that someone needed a grant and decided that preserving the Hawking floppy
disks was of some value and that would help to get a grant.
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On Oct 19, 2025, at 17:08, Fred Cisin via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
On Sun, 19 Oct 2025, Wayne S via cctalk wrote:
Reading their home page, they really don’t have a clue!
Keep in mind, that Oxbridge is a university. SOME academics do not respect knowledge and
techniques developed and used in industry or non-academic institutions.
"Not invented here"
I doubt that they have even sought out existing disk format conversions services and
experts.
So, they would be looking for academic (peer reviewed?) papers about
things such as how to bake disks, rather than looking for old posts by Chuck.
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