[cctalk] Re: Cambridge University Library

On Oct 19, 2025, at 17:14, Wayne S <wayne.sudol(a)hotmail.com> wrote: 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. Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 19, 2025, at 17:08, Fred Cisin via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote: > >  >> >>>>>> https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/future-nostalgia > >>> 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. > > > -- > Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com