Author Archives: Jason Scott

New Software Collection: Making the Business Case

Posted on February 14, 2014 by Jason Scott

The Internet Archive continues its goal of bringing the same experience of older software that we have with movies, books and audio. This newest collection, just in time for Valentine’s Day (?), is called The Business Case, and is a continually-growing … Continue reading →

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Still Life, With Emulator: The JSMESS FAQ

Posted on December 31, 2013 by Jason Scott

The announcements of the Console Living Room and the Historical Software Collection have brought a large amount of attention to the JSMESS emulator that archive.org uses. Naturally, being a relatively new method of playing software in a browser, there are … Continue reading →

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A Second Christmas Morning: The Console Living Room

Posted on December 26, 2013 by Jason Scott

For a generation of children, the most exciting part of a Christmas morning was discovering a large box under the tree, ripping it apart, and looking at an exciting, colorful box promising endless video games. At home! Right in your … Continue reading →

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Microcomputer Software Lives Again, This Time in Your Browser

Posted on October 25, 2013 by Jason Scott

The miracle is now so commonplace that it’s invisible: we have the ability to watch video, listen to music, and read documents right in our browsers. You might get a hankering to hear some old time radio, or classic television programs, … Continue reading →

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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 →

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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 →

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