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Re: Extinct Media Museum Tokyo

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Post by mmooss »

perbu wrote: post #5

> All media other than paper and stone will become extinct Somewhat tangential... I once worked for the national archives. Unlike libraries, the archives typically have the only copy of a specific piece of data. So if the lose the data, it is lost forever. My mission was to figure out how to deal with information storage in a millennial perspective. There are tons of really interesting ways to store data. I think my…

Interesting: What was embedded in the QR code? An identifier for the object? If it's the object's textual data that is embedded: aren't archives as interested in storing the objects as as they are in the contents? Why not images of the object?

Re: Extinct Media Museum Tokyo

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Post by pstuart »

perbu wrote: post #5

> All media other than paper and stone will become extinct Somewhat tangential... I once worked for the national archives. Unlike libraries, the archives typically have the only copy of a specific piece of data. So if the lose the data, it is lost forever. My mission was to figure out how to deal with information storage in a millennial perspective. There are tons of really interesting ways to store data. I think my…

Microsoft's Project Silica is intriguing and would be perfect for this if they can get the technology simplified and commoditized. It offers the Star Trek vision of mass storage that could outlast us. Not directly applicable to the needs in your case but is interesting.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/project-silica...

Re: Extinct Media Museum Tokyo

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Post by bombcar »

ilamont wrote: post #22

It seems like most of the collection is post-1960, leaving out many earlier types of media such as the ediphone and graphophone cylinders. https://obsoletemedia.org/ediphone/

It's also missing a large swath of computer-only things (that have some incidental overlap with what they have) - noticeably backup tapes; I'd expect to see QIC/SLR, for example.

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Post by LM358 »

raddan wrote: post #10

Wow, a DAT Walkman [1]! I forgot that this existed, but I am remembering now that I heard about them in college and desperately wanted one. I was (and still am) an avid listener of music. Digital formats were such a leap over analog media at the time. There was an art to holding your portable CD player (on edge, cradled with your palm facing upward) so that the CD did not constantly slip as you walked. It always amus…

DAT Walkmans (Walkmen?) had other problems. DAT transports are vastly more complicated than those used for compact cassette, being a close relative to VHS and other video tapes. They're supposedly nice when they work though!

Re: Extinct Media Museum Tokyo

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Post by cl42 »

tkgally wrote: post #7

Some other museums to visit while you’re in Tokyo: JCII Camera Museum https://www.jcii-cameramuseum.jp/top-e/ Small Worlds Miniature Museum https://smallworlds.jp/en/ Button Museum https://button-museum.jp/en/ World Bags and Luggage Museum https://www.ace.jp/en/museum/ Meguro Parasitological Museum https://www.kiseichu.org/e-top I learned about the Button Museum more than twenty-five years ago. I was taking a walk al…

Meguro Parasitological Museum is fantastic and en...grossing. :) It's a fun area to visit in general. Highly recommend it.

Also...

Yamato History Museum: https://www.yamato-hd.co.jp/museum/en/

... and if you are near Hiroshima, the Toto Museum is a history of toilets + washroom innovation and surprisingly fascinating. https://jp.toto.com/en/knowledge/visit/museum/

Re: Extinct Media Museum Tokyo

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Post by Finnucane »

ilamont wrote: post #22

It seems like most of the collection is post-1960, leaving out many earlier types of media such as the ediphone and graphophone cylinders. https://obsoletemedia.org/ediphone/

There's some older stuff, but it seems kinda random. I see also two cameras in their collection (a Speed Graphic Pacemaker, and a Fuji GW690ii) that I have in my cabinet. I will refrain from telling them they are 'extinct' (at least until I run out of film for them).

Re: Extinct Media Museum Tokyo

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Post by monocasa »

perbu wrote: post #5

> All media other than paper and stone will become extinct Somewhat tangential... I once worked for the national archives. Unlike libraries, the archives typically have the only copy of a specific piece of data. So if the lose the data, it is lost forever. My mission was to figure out how to deal with information storage in a millennial perspective. There are tons of really interesting ways to store data. I think my…

You might be interested in IBM's archival digital storage on microfilm format from the early 1960s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_1360

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