L.MCH - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Will they care? And avoid moisture. (Score 1) 465

by L.MCH on Saturday January 24, 2009 @07:21PM (#26593505) Attached to: Long-Term PC Preservation Project?

And

6. Do a hard copy printout of the BIOS. Its flash memory will have become erased in 50 years.

7. Dito for any BIOS in your video hardware

7b Ditto for the hard disk and cd/dvd-reader (their integrated controllers have their own firmware stored on flash eprom) and check if the rest of the hardware has other microcontrollers with firmware on flash eprom.

The best strategy is to store on cd/dvd the bios, firmware and all the documentation for the programming interface (usually JTAG) and the exact protocol and procedure needed to reflash the chips from scratch (usually you find them in .pdf format in the technical documentation of the chip manifacturer).

Better if there are multiple copies on different disks of exactly the same data so even with damaged or "faded" disks it will easier to perform at least a partial recovery by comparing
the disk content .

The Age of Touch Computing 414

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday December 15, 2008 @12:45PM from the touch-me-there dept.

DigitalDame2 writes "In 2009, touch computing will go mainstream. More and more devices will be legitimately touch-enabled with gesture controls for browsing through photos, tossing objects around the screen, flicking to turn the page of a book, and even playing video games and watching movies. In fact, Gartner analyst Steve Prentice told the BBC recently that the mouse will be dead in three to five years. PCMag has a full look at touch computing — the past, the present, and the future — including an interview with Sabrina Boler, touch UI designer."

Slashdot Top Deals