Kendra Malinowski, Emily McDonald, Marcia McIntosh, Roger Simon

Digital Archiving and Preservation

April 30, 2014

A> CP/M INTRO

The Context

The Journey

The Struggles

The Results

B> CP/M HISTORY

Intel 8080 CPU (http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/8080/)

Gary Kildallhttp://www.computerhistory.org/

atchm/gary-kildall-40th-anniversary-of-the-birth-of-the-pc-

operating-system/

B> CP/M HISTORY

Gary Kildall and Wife Dorothy DRI http://www.atariarchives.org/deli/Time_Line.php

First IBM PC, date: 1981http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ibm_pc_5150.jpg

C> HUNTING

“The purpose of this archive is mainly to prevent the sources from getting lost.”

- CP/M Manuals Archive(http://www.cpm.z80.de/manuals/archive/)

D> CONTACTING

Hello,

We are a group of students from the University of Texas at Austin School of Information contacting you regarding the CP/M utilities that are on your website http://www.nostalgia8.nl/cpm.htm  because we are interested in preserving them.

-Letter to Potential Donor

E> MORE HUNTING

“The files will be available on the University of Texas at Austin’s institutional repository in the the “Retrocomputing Archive” collection, which is part of the “Digital Archives Projects” community and the “CP/M” sub-community.

Records Holder: Gene Buckle”

-Submission Agreement

F> OPENSUSE(ING)

“The chameleon's name is Geeko. It’s a mixture of geek and gecko.”- Emily McDonald,on the openSUSE Mascot

G> RENDERING

Try ‘sys mount c utilityname’- Carlos Ovalle

H> STRUCTURING

I> Mime TypingcomCOMCONCPMCQCRCCRLCRTCSDCVLDdatDATDBFDBMDCLDCTDEFDEMDEXG

DICDIDDIFDILDIRDISDIZDMDMBDOdocDOCDOKDQCDQTdskDSKdtaDTADTBDTX

DVREEDED#EDTEMPEPSEQNequEQUERLerrERREXEEXTFFAUFFFILFIXFK

FMTFONforFORFRMFRQGEMGENGETGIFGMKGOHH19H86HBIHBPHBShexHEXHIS

hlpHLPII86inININ2incINCINDINFINIinpINPINSINTIOIRLJjpgJRLK

TSTtxtTXTU00UCFUPDUTLVALVDMWHMWPWSWS4WSTXXCLXRFZ80ZEXZIPZPRZRL

KBDKEYKITKMDL86LBLLBRLDLDRLETlibLIBLINLITLNKLOGLQRLRNLSPLSTMACMAN

MAPMCDmcsMCSmeMEME#MEMMIXMMPMNUMODMPMMQMQCMQDMQGmsgMSGMSKMSSMST

I > DESCRIBING

=CONCATENATE

Split -1 filename.txt

J> BATCHING

K> DOCUMENTING

L> STRUGGLING

Potential Donor Correspondence

Mime Types

Narrowing Scope

openSUSE

Importing Files

M> ACCOMPLISHING

● Increased knowledge of Early Computer History● Uploaded XXX Items into DSpace● Gained DSpace, Linux(openSUSE), Dublin Core, and

CP/M experience and skills● Acquired Infinite Fun via Zork, Sargon

N> THANKING

Dr. Galloway

Carlos Ovalle

Shane Williams

Gene Buckle (Retrocomputing Archive)

Andreas Gerlich (YAZE-AG)

A> ANSWERING

A> Emulating & Virtualizing