📝 Planning your week, San Francisco Bay Area?
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Planning your week, San Francisco Bay Area? 
Consider joining us Thursday for the VANISHING CULTURE book launch! 
When digital materials are vulnerable to sudden removal, our collective memory is compromised. This new report from the Internet Archive raises awareness of what is at risk and what we can do about it.
Thu, April 23
5:30 pm: Doors open & entertainment
300 Funston Ave, SF
️ https://blog.archive.org/event/vanishing-culture-book-launch/@internetarchive #Bookstodon #VanishingCulture
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Planning your week, San Francisco Bay Area? Consider joining us Thursday for the VANISHING CULTURE book launch!
When digital materials are vulnerable to sudden removal, our collective memory is compromised. This new report from the Internet Archive raises awareness of what is at risk and what we can do about it.
Thu, April 23 5:30 pm: Doors open & entertainment 300 Funston Ave, SF️ https://blog.archive.org/event/vanishing-culture-book-launch/@internetarchive #Bookstodon #VanishingCulture
Got my copy of @internetarchive's "Vanishing Culture" book in the mail yesterday. So cool to see my essay on "Recovering Lost Software" in print, plus all the other contributions!
Read it online here:
https://blog.archive.org/2025/05/07/vanishing-culture-recovering-lost-software/Follow my retrocomputing research:
https://breakintochat.com/blog/#atari #kirschen #breakintochat #digipres #preservation #archives #retrocomputing #retrogaming
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Got my copy of @internetarchive's "Vanishing Culture" book in the mail yesterday. So cool to see my essay on "Recovering Lost Software" in print, plus all the other contributions!
Read it online here:
https://blog.archive.org/2025/05/07/vanishing-culture-recovering-lost-software/Follow my retrocomputing research:
https://breakintochat.com/blog/#atari #kirschen #breakintochat #digipres #preservation #archives #retrocomputing #retrogaming
Nice piece!
As the current chairperson for the IEEE Silicon Valley Technology History Committee, I hope to organize an event in or around November to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the video game cartridge.
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Nice piece!
As the current chairperson for the IEEE Silicon Valley Technology History Committee, I hope to organize an event in or around November to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the video game cartridge.
@johnlogic Thanks so much! Kirschen's story is pretty unique, and I hope to publish even more on it in the future.
And I *love* the idea of celebrating the 50th anniversary of game cartridges. Would be cool to see an exhibit showing all the different form factors, etc.
I have used so many in my life — but I always thought the Atari computer carts (for 800/XL/XE) were unique with the metal shell and the skirt that lifts up when you insert.
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@johnlogic Thanks so much! Kirschen's story is pretty unique, and I hope to publish even more on it in the future.
And I *love* the idea of celebrating the 50th anniversary of game cartridges. Would be cool to see an exhibit showing all the different form factors, etc.
I have used so many in my life — but I always thought the Atari computer carts (for 800/XL/XE) were unique with the metal shell and the skirt that lifts up when you insert.
Atari cartridges (VCS/2600, 400/800, 5200) all had an interesting mechanism to keep fingers and dirt out of the board edge connectors. It was an improvement over the Fairchild Channel F cartridge (1976, a year earlier), which had just a hinged cover with a spring.
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