Needed: obsolete media field guide

[finoradin]

There are ample tools and resources out there to help archivists and conservators identify obsolete analog audiovisual formats, but there don't seem to be very good guides for identifying obsolete born-digital formats. Let's make one! Here's a running list of some initial ideas…

• 3.5" floppies
• 5.25" floppies
• ZIP disks
• JAZ disks
• Bernoulli
• SCSI hard drives (2.5" and 3.5"
• IDE / PATA hard drives
• CD-RW
• CD-R
• Mini DVD-R

Plenty more…

[ezrajteboul]

This may be a good catalog https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvXXkB2jic0

[finoradin]

This may be a good catalog https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvXXkB2jic0

Super reference! Thx for sharing

[splorp]

The Museum of Obsolete Media might also be useful as a cross reference, especially for non-computer related media types.

https://obsoletemedia.org/

[finoradin]

The Museum of Obsolete Media might also be useful as a cross reference, especially for non-computer related media types.

https://obsoletemedia.org/

This one was on our radar for sure – so good 💾

[ntallman]

Tape has a lot of legacy formats, would be helpful to include tapes and tape drives.