[HN Gopher] Archival Floppy Disk Preservation and Use [video]
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Archival Floppy Disk Preservation and Use [video]
Author : hggh
Score : 81 points
Date : 2024-02-24 23:07 UTC (23 hours ago)
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| stavros wrote:
| I really like videos that teach me a ton of things for something
| I'm never ever going to use.
|
| This was really enjoyable, thanks.
| bfeist wrote:
| This is a great example of a YouTube video that should have been
| an article.
| cricalix wrote:
| You mean https://wiki.techtangents.net/wiki/Floppy_Disk_Imaging
| which is linked from the video?
| AkBKukU wrote:
| (I am the video/page creator)
|
| This is the eternal struggle of trying to write about
| something like this on the modern internet. The video is the
| flashy thing that gets attention (and revenue which allows me
| to do this as my job) but the written part is just talking
| into a void and hoping someone notices. I agree this type of
| information is best presented in text which is why I made an
| effort to produce a written component as well. But there's no
| way that article would have ended up linked somewhere like
| here.
| ghaff wrote:
| A lot of people these days want to flip through YouTube or
| listen to podcasts rather than reading even though the
| latter is often more efficient. So now you're asking
| someone to create additional content that won't make them
| any money (assuming they care).
|
| People still create content for free--and it's obviously
| hard to monetize content generally--but, as apparently in
| your case, it's possible and if that were my goal I'd
| probably optimize for that.
| G3rn0ti wrote:
| I am a big fan of your channel for quite some time. Thanks
| for your content! I wish I had the practical talent and
| your patience when it comes to repairs and restorations.
| _0xdd wrote:
| Always enjoyed your channel! I was literally taking notes
| on this video yesterday, so I really appreciate you writing
| the whole thing up. I recently cleaned, lubricated, and re-
| aligned a few 5.25 disk drives using IMD (and by some
| miracle it worked despite my initial frustrations) and your
| videos were seriously helpful. Much thanks!
| neilv wrote:
| > _but the written part is just talking into a void and
| hoping someone notices._
|
| The Web crawlers for LLM trainers definitely notice.
| mistermegabyte wrote:
| I love the channel and have been watching for a few years.
| I agree that videos are the flashy things but in some ways
| videos have ruined the internet for me a bit (not your
| channel though). What I mean is if I'm trying to learn how
| to do something and search for a solution, I find a
| gazillion videos and will be lucky to find a page that has
| succinct, written instructions. It's very infuriating. So,
| I often (almost always) have to watch a 10 or 15 minute
| video for 2 minutes of information instead of having
| written info that gets to the point. Keep up the good work
| on Tech Tangents, its awesome.
| nottorp wrote:
| Well, you're losing the minority that didn't click on the
| video because life's too short and went straight to the
| comments.
|
| Comments on HN usually contain related links and possibly
| more info than the item the story links to so it's a valid
| strategy.
|
| Edit: but then you wouldn't have made any money off me
| anyway because I run ad blockers.
| kn0where wrote:
| As a subscriber and Patreon member, thank you for making
| videos with so much substance. You strike a good balance
| between entertaining and informative, and I'm glad you're
| also able to create written records for work like this.
| ogurechny wrote:
| You're certainly not the one to be scolded for low
| information density in your videos.
|
| (One semi-serious metric is the need to jump backwards to
| check something interesting when watching on 2x. This means
| the author/editor worked well on concise packing.
| Obviously, not applicable to live stream recordings.)
|
| An article like that certainly can be linked here. Many
| similar ones are. There is no guarantee it will swoosh to
| the top, but it will be noticed by some people, and appear
| in someone's searches. Sometimes links are resubmitted
| years later, and finally get the deserved attention.
| dawnerd wrote:
| I skimmed the linked article and I would have been lost and
| given up fairly quickly but watching the video I absorbed a lot
| more.
| ogurechny wrote:
| This is a great example of work "community" can do. We're in
| "Web 2.0" era, after all.
|
| Dedicated fans can make a nice transcript, take screenshots
| when needed, and, usually with the blessing of the author, post
| it somewhere. It can also be turned into decent subtitles and
| attached to original video. Speech recognition can provide
| basic timestamps, then lots of merging and splitting in
| subtitle editor can happen, and correct text can overwrite the
| mess.
|
| Rough estimate is 1 day of work for 1 hour of video. Commercial
| channels simply hire someone to do that before release. Author
| of the video in question has already provided the script
| himself.
|
| When YouTube disappears, using the article, and keeping copies
| of videos in an on-demand archive (e. g. big torrent) would be
| easier than providing a streamable copies of all videos for
| everyone.
|
| Comments on certain channels are important assembly points of
| knowledgeable people, and should be saved, too. Google might
| have a negative opinion on copying "its" data to other public
| web pages, but Goggle is not forever.
| wiz21c wrote:
| Cool video! Too bad it doesn't go in the details of copy
| protection. What they were doing those days was truly devious and
| hellish :-) (and hacking them was even more :-) )
| randombits0 wrote:
| So a modern Copy II PC Option Board.
| WalterBright wrote:
| I wrote a C program a few years ago to make an image copy of DOS
| floppy disks. This was so I could preserve bootable floppies. (It
| doesn't deal with copy protected disks.)
|
| It's a DOS program itself because it uses DOS to access the FAT
| tables. So it needs to run on Windows XP or earlier, or use a DOS
| box.
|
| I can put it up on github if anyone wants it.
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