Alexander Winkler<p><a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/stellenausschreibung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>stellenausschreibung</span></a> im bereich <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/langzeitarchivierung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>langzeitarchivierung</span></a> <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/digipres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>digipres</span></a> am <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/zib" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>zib</span></a> Berlin: <a href="https://www.zib.de/jobadvertisement/1725-it-spezialist-fur-digitale-langzeitverfugbarkeit-wmd" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">zib.de/jobadvertisement/1725-i</span><span class="invisible">t-spezialist-fur-digitale-langzeitverfugbarkeit-wmd</span></a></p><p>100% TV-L E 12, auf 3 Jahre befristet</p>
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Thorsted<p>Make your own Floppy Cleaning Disk. <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/digipres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>digipres</span></a> <a href="https://hackaday.com/2025/08/01/you-can-make-your-own-floppy-drive-cleaning-disks/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hackaday.com/2025/08/01/you-ca</span><span class="invisible">n-make-your-own-floppy-drive-cleaning-disks/</span></a></p>
James Truitt (he/him)<p>I continue to be surprised by the longevity of WordPerfect. The LC classification schedules are still available online in WP format! <a href="https://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://code4lib.social/tags/DigiPres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DigiPres</span></a></p>
Tim Sherratt<p>Digital preservation at the National Museum of Australia. <a href="https://www.dpconline.org/blog/blog-nma-2025" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">dpconline.org/blog/blog-nma-20</span><span class="invisible">25</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/glam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>glam</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/digipres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>digipres</span></a></p>
#Digital ⚓️ #Vagabond 🦈<p>Fun (and important) feature of <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/Emojipedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Emojipedia</span></a> is it's historical design archive, documenting what emoji used to look like on previous generations of devices. Super important for interpretation of historical SMS and SMS-like communications with <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/emoji" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>emoji</span></a>. E.g. below for the "robot".</p><p><a href="https://emojipedia.org/robot#designs" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">emojipedia.org/robot#designs</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://digipres.club/tags/digipres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>digipres</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/DigitalCulture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalCulture</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/DH" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DH</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/DigitalHumanities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalHumanities</span></a></p>
nestor e.V.<p>Die nestor-Arbeitsgruppe „Dokumentation in der digitalen Langzeitarchivierung“ hat ihre Arbeit am Leitfaden zur Dokumentation in der digitalen Langzeitarchivierung erfolgreich abgeschlossen. Der Leitfaden wurde auf unserer Website als nestor-Materialien 28 veröffentlicht und kann kostenfrei heruntergeladen werden.</p><p><a href="https://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0008-2507101336321.667080583730" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:00</span><span class="invisible">08-2507101336321.667080583730</span></a></p><p>Weiterführende Informationen über die Arbeitsgruppe sind hier zu finden: </p><p><a href="https://www.langzeitarchivierung.de/Webs/nestor/DE/Arbeitsgruppen/AG_Dokumentation_der_digitalen_Langzeitarchivierung/ag_dokumentation_digital_LZA_node.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">langzeitarchivierung.de/Webs/n</span><span class="invisible">estor/DE/Arbeitsgruppen/AG_Dokumentation_der_digitalen_Langzeitarchivierung/ag_dokumentation_digital_LZA_node.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/digipres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>digipres</span></a></p>
vga256<p>as promised, the treasure trove of US Robotics dialup ISP software is now available on IA. Please note that while I've done my best to describe the software, none of it has been tested. If you're planning on doing something like firmware upgrades, be 100% sure it's the right equipment and firmware.</p><p>and if you're one of those lucky 9 people that has a USR Total Control device, i'd love to hear your results.</p><p>USR Total Control SNMP Manager MIBs:<br><a href="https://archive.org/details/tc-mibs" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.org/details/tc-mibs</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>US Robotics SNMP Total Control Manager 2.0.1 and 4.13 Upgrade DIsks<br><a href="https://archive.org/details/usr-tc-nmc-snmp" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.org/details/usr-tc-nmc</span><span class="invisible">-snmp</span></a></p><p>COM/US Robotics Total Control NetServer 8/16 Manager and Utilities<br><a href="https://archive.org/details/usr-tc-netserver8-manager" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.org/details/usr-tc-net</span><span class="invisible">server8-manager</span></a></p><p>US Robotics Total Control Modem Pool 8/16 Firmware:<br><a href="https://archive.org/details/usr-tc-mp16-firmware" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.org/details/usr-tc-mp1</span><span class="invisible">6-firmware</span></a></p><p>Novell NetWare Services Manager 1.1<br><a href="https://archive.org/details/novell-nsm-1.1" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.org/details/novell-nsm</span><span class="invisible">-1.1</span></a></p><p>US Robotics Total Control SNMP Manager for NetWare NMS:<br><a href="https://archive.org/details/usr-tc-snmp-extras" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.org/details/usr-tc-snm</span><span class="invisible">p-extras</span></a></p><p>US Robotics Modem Software Downloader 1.7 & USR Sportster Modem Firmware upgrade<br><a href="https://archive.org/details/usr-sportster-upgrader" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.org/details/usr-sports</span><span class="invisible">ter-upgrader</span></a></p><p>US robotics hardware upgrade offer document for dial-up ISPs. This is just a marketing document, but it's a fun read:<br><a href="https://archive.org/details/usr-x2-offer" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.org/details/usr-x2-off</span><span class="invisible">er</span></a></p><p><a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/retroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retroComputing</span></a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/dialup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dialup</span></a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/softwarePreservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>softwarePreservation</span></a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/digiPres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>digiPres</span></a></p>
vga256<p>i just ftp'd into a public ftp server running in Ecuador, and discovered an absolutely critical piece of US Robotics ISP modem pool software that has been missing for 20 years </p><p>thank you from the bottom of my heart, rolando felix of Educational Unit 10 De Agosto, for leaving your departmental computer ftp wide open ❤️ you just preserved some insanely useful and important dial-up ISP history. (don't worry rolando - i didn't peek too deeply into your ms-dos games and music folders)</p><p>the story:<br>in the mid-90s i was a teenager who had a summer job at a dial-up isp. we had 32 incoming lines which were handled by 32 external USR Courier modems, which were fed into a super chonky Livingston Portmaster terminal server. all of the support hardware took up an entire rack - just to let 32 people call in for internet service at 28.8kbaud. it ate a ton of power, and made a lot of heat.</p><p>then, in 95-96, US Robotics delivered two insane appliances: the Total Control Modem Pool. these were *tiny* devices that offered 16 dial-up modems at 33.6kbaud. if you paid a bit more, you could buy the NetServer version, which gave you a terminal server too. an entire isp in a box the size of a network switch.</p><p>the modems had buggy firmware. so USR offered firmware updates via their ftp site. you could even upgrade some of the modems to "x2" 56k service with a firmware patch. they supported it for years, and when 3com bought USR, they kept the ftp site running for years. and then, 3com shut down their ftp site. and no one thought to mirror it.</p><p>after 3 hours of searching, i was able to track down a single filename thanks to WBM: mpv90an.zip. not a single site on the web had it - not even IA or discmaster. on a hunch, i plugged it into the Napalm FTP Indexer (<a href="https://www.searchftps.net" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">www.searchftps.net</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>) and... unbelievably, there it was, sitting on an ancient box in someone's university office in Quito, Ecuador.</p><p>the most amazing part was how slow the server was. at 250 ms pings, it was like digging through a public ftp on a 14.4k modem in 1994.</p><p>tomorrow i'll be uploading these files to IA. for now, sleep.</p><p><a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/digiPres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>digiPres</span></a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/softwarePreservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>softwarePreservation</span></a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/ISP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ISP</span></a></p>
#Digital ⚓️ #Vagabond 🦈<p>Digital Preservation in Popular Culture: Elementary S05E07</p><p>"I managed to isolate the serial number of Mr Trenchman's new camera from the metadata hidden in his YouTube footage"</p><p>NB. couldn't find a better resolution to get a better pic of the video codec! </p><p><a href="https://digipres.club/tags/DigitalForensics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalForensics</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/SocialMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialMedia</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/Digipres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Digipres</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/Codecs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Codecs</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/Elementary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Elementary</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/InfoSec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InfoSec</span></a></p>
PurpleJillybeans :PrideDisk:<p>Who remembers making "fun names" in <a href="https://kind.social/tags/Quake" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Quake</span></a>? I just uploaded "PM's Cooler Namebuilder" to archive.org. I haven't been able to find the original zip file anywhere, but I had the binary handy so decided I'd better get it preserved.</p><p><a href="https://archive.org/details/pms-cooler-namebuilder-v1.3" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.org/details/pms-cooler</span><span class="invisible">-namebuilder-v1.3</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kind.social/tags/RetroGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RetroGaming</span></a> <a href="https://kind.social/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a> <a href="https://kind.social/tags/DigiPres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DigiPres</span></a></p>
Redstart Works<p>Happy birthday to me!! Redstart Works was formally established on July 25, 2024 🥳 </p><p>To celebrate the moment, I wrote a post about what I've been up to for the past year, what I've learned, and what I hope for the future. Please boost ☺️ </p><p><a href="https://facilitator-jess.github.io/RedstartWorks/2025/07/25/redstart-1st-bday.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">facilitator-jess.github.io/Red</span><span class="invisible">startWorks/2025/07/25/redstart-1st-bday.html</span></a></p><p>Thank you especially to <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://glammr.us/@TeamMidwest" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>TeamMidwest</span></a></span> for the support over the past year and <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://wears.tigerpajamas.com/@phil" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>phil</span></a></span> for helping me break and fix my website today!</p><p><a href="https://glammr.us/tags/digitalarchives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>digitalarchives</span></a> <a href="https://glammr.us/tags/digipres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>digipres</span></a> <a href="https://glammr.us/tags/consulting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>consulting</span></a></p>
anelki<p>does anyone have suggestions for making an archive of a site like this where the links to the actual pages are all dynamically generated/rendered by JS and thus there is no easy way to just scrape the page links from the homepage html?</p><p><code>wget</code> can't do it and archiveweb.page can kinda do it, insofar as it can view/capture the page, but reloading the page just gives you a "loading" image, just like...</p><p>the original: <a href="https://greatmirror.com/united-states-oklahoma" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">greatmirror.com/united-states-</span><span class="invisible">oklahoma</span></a></p><p>and the archive: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20250717005413/https://greatmirror.com/united-states-oklahoma" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">web.archive.org/web/2025071700</span><span class="invisible">5413/https://greatmirror.com/united-states-oklahoma</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tilde.zone/tags/WebArchiving" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WebArchiving</span></a> <a href="https://tilde.zone/tags/DigiPres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DigiPres</span></a></p>
vga256<p>if you were a kid in the 90s or early 2000s, you very likely goofed around with some of this educational software at school, or if your parents hated you sufficiently, at home.</p><p>a few months ago someone generously sent me an educational software catalog that their father - who was a teacher - had kept from the 90s. i finally got around to scanning it in, and now you too can goggle at the insane prices schools had to pay for multi-seat game licenses.</p><p>this is the catalog your teachers browsed in the summer, before unsuccessfully trying to convince the principal to lay down $495 for an Incredible Machine 3 lab pack.</p><p>(fwiw, does anyone really trust an edutainment company that can't spell brussels sprouts?)</p><p>pdf and original (400 dpi) scans here:</p><p><a href="https://archive.org/details/software-plus-1996" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.org/details/software-p</span><span class="invisible">lus-1996</span></a></p><p><a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/softwarePreservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>softwarePreservation</span></a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/digiPres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>digiPres</span></a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/retroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retroComputing</span></a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/retroGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retroGaming</span></a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/edutainment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>edutainment</span></a></p>
FELSQUALLE.COM<p>I'm on a mission to save one of my childhood favorites from getting lost to time. We know what's going wrong. And we know how to fix it.</p><p>After more than 20 years, "Masters of the Elements" by the Dutch studio IJsfontein is working again! Natively. On Windows 11.</p><p>But I'm not entirely done yet.</p><p><a href="https://fabulous.systems/posts/2025/07/saving-the-masters-of-the-elements-part-3/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">fabulous.systems/posts/2025/07</span><span class="invisible">/saving-the-masters-of-the-elements-part-3/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://manitu.social/tags/retrogaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrogaming</span></a> <a href="https://manitu.social/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://manitu.social/tags/digipres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>digipres</span></a></p>
Thorsted<p><a href="https://digipres.club/tags/fileformat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fileformat</span></a> Friday! Microstation DGN updates. <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/digipres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>digipres</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/cad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cad</span></a> <a href="https://preservation.tylerthorsted.com/2025/07/11/microstation/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">preservation.tylerthorsted.com</span><span class="invisible">/2025/07/11/microstation/</span></a></p>
Jessie Nabein :neofox_peek_owo:<p><strong>montréal, QC</strong></p><p>Si quelqu'un cherche à embaucher, ou connaît quelqu'un qui cherche à embaucher: </p><ul><li><p>dans la domaine TI (mais pas dans un poste expliciquement technique)</p></li><li><p>dans une poste de bibliothécaire/archiviste/similaire, </p></li></ul><p>SVP envoyez-moi une DM. Je cherche vraiment à changer de carrière.</p><p>Bilingue anglais/français, administrateur/technicien système, archiviste amateur avec des compétences professionnelles; datahoarder.</p><p>Plus d'infos, références, CV; tout ça est dispo. sur demande. :happypete: <br>/////</p><p>MONTREAL, QC</p><p>If anyone is looking to hire, or knows someone looking to hire in the:</p><ul><li><p>IT field (but not in a strictly technical position)</p></li><li><p>librarian/archivist/similar areas</p></li></ul><p>please send me a DM. I am really looking to change career streams.</p><p>Bilingual English/French, system administrator/technician, amateur archivist with professional skills; datahoarder.</p><p>More info, references, CV; all available on request. :happypete: </p><p><a href="https://wetdry.world/tags/getfedihired" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>getfedihired</span></a> <a href="https://wetdry.world/tags/Job" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Job</span></a> <a href="https://wetdry.world/tags/jobs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>jobs</span></a> <a href="https://wetdry.world/tags/JobSearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JobSearch</span></a> <a href="https://wetdry.world/tags/Archivist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Archivist</span></a> <a href="https://wetdry.world/tags/archival" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>archival</span></a> <a href="https://wetdry.world/tags/montreal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>montreal</span></a> <a href="https://wetdry.world/tags/QC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>QC</span></a> <a href="https://wetdry.world/tags/GetHired" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GetHired</span></a> <a href="https://wetdry.world/tags/digipres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>digipres</span></a> <a href="https://wetdry.world/tags/digipresjobs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>digipresjobs</span></a> <a href="https://wetdry.world/tags/FediHire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FediHire</span></a><br><a href="https://wetdry.world/tags/FediHired" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FediHired</span></a> <a href="https://wetdry.world/tags/JobSearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JobSearch</span></a> <a href="https://wetdry.world/tags/GetFediHired" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GetFediHired</span></a></p>
vga256<p>over the years i've become more interested in game/software ephemera than the software itself. </p><p>for example, few people under 20 have grown up with a local computer store or brick & mortar store that sells boxed games. biking over to the computer store to line up, pay cash, and buy a game you've been saving for months has become an alien experience.</p><p>a few days ago i bought some old PC boxed games from a guy that had them in storage for decades. of all of them, i was the least excited about Millionaire. it looked like the kind of lazy portware that probably started its life as a text simulation on the Apple II and made its way to every godforsaken architecture.</p><p>tucked away on the last page of the manual was an absolute treasure: the original VISA transaction record for the day the game was bought, for $52.88, on July 20, 1985 at the Real Canadian Superstore in Edmonton, AB, Canada. This is before Canada had the goods and services tax (GST), and when Alberta was abbreviated to Alta.</p><p>the owner stapled it on to the warranty registration card, just in case he had to return it or RMA it some day.</p><p>Superstore #1572 is still there, in the north end. while i knew they had always sold video games, i had no idea that they sold IBM XT software way back in 1985.</p><p>(for anyone not in Canada, Superstore is a national discount grocery chain.)</p><p>even better, no one under the age of 30 will have seen these credit card transaction records. they were made using a "credit card imprinter" - a sliding mechanism that pressed the card number through several layers of invoice and carbon copy paper. The invoice papers were usually two or three layered - a white and pink copy for the business, and a yellow copy went to the customer.</p><p><a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/vintageComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vintageComputing</span></a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/softwarePreservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>softwarePreservation</span></a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/digiPres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>digiPres</span></a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>canada</span></a></p>
FELSQUALLE.COM<p>Part 2 of my journey to save one of my favorite games back in my childhood from getting lost to time is live!</p><p>This time, we'll start digging into the game files, assess the damage, and plan our route ahead.</p><p><a href="https://fabulous.systems/posts/2025/07/saving-the-masters-of-the-elements-part-2/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">fabulous.systems/posts/2025/07</span><span class="invisible">/saving-the-masters-of-the-elements-part-2/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://manitu.social/tags/retrogaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrogaming</span></a> <a href="https://manitu.social/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://manitu.social/tags/digipres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>digipres</span></a></p>
PurpleJillybeans :PrideDisk:<p>Thought I lost this in a disk crash long ago and was never able to find the original web source again, but I just came across it in an old backup!</p><p>Bugs' A-Life was a <a href="https://kind.social/tags/MachineLearning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MachineLearning</span></a> experiment made in 1999. Unfortunately the author didn't credit themselves, though they did name several inspirations.</p><p><a href="https://archive.org/details/bugsalife" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.org/details/bugsalife</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://kind.social/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a> <a href="https://kind.social/tags/DigiPres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DigiPres</span></a></p>
vga256<p>TIL GeoWorks - the graphical environment for the rest of us - had a shareware edition. it was $10, and let you use anything, except you couldn't save your data.</p><p>is this the only existing shareware OS?</p><p>thank you to @floppyarchaeology for scanning in the materials and imaging the install floppies</p><p><a href="https://archive.org/details/geoworks-working-model/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.org/details/geoworks-w</span><span class="invisible">orking-model/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/softwarePreservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>softwarePreservation</span></a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/digiPres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>digiPres</span></a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/shareware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>shareware</span></a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/dosGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dosGaming</span></a></p>
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