Author Archives: Jason Scott

Riding with the Bit Savers

Posted on March 12, 2013 by Jason Scott

Since 1997, a dedicated team of scanners and curators have been assembling a collection of historical computer and technology-related items. This collection, called BITSAVERS.ORG, contains tens of thousands of documents and software products dating back from the 1950s and into … Continue reading →

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Hard Drive Archaeology – And Hackerspaces

Posted on September 3, 2011 by Jason Scott

Two different, but somewhat related additions to the archive you might want to check out. First, I was contacted earlier this week about a project to recover information off of an old Cray-1 supercomputer hard drive. Unlike, say, trying to … Continue reading →

Posted in Cool items, Software Archive | 13 Comments

Scanning a Braille Playboy

Posted on August 17, 2011 by Jason Scott

Hi. I’m Jason Scott, adjunct archivist at archive.org, and I wanted to talk about the time I watched the Internet Archive scan in a Braille issue of Playboy magazine. Many people might not know there have even been Braille editions of … Continue reading →

Posted in Books Archive | 14 Comments