Well, you all heard the important news.
... the 1970s style guide for Bell System Vehicles is scanned and available for perusal.
Thank you for your understanding.
https://archive.org/details/bell-system-vehicle-graphics-manual-1970-03
Well, you all heard the important news.
... the 1970s style guide for Bell System Vehicles is scanned and available for perusal.
Thank you for your understanding.
https://archive.org/details/bell-system-vehicle-graphics-manual-1970-03
Remember, we're ACCURATELY EMULATING CASSETTE SPEEDS, folks. That means you could spend up to 10 minutes letting these little guys load in. Some of the C64 games had stuff like mini-games, graphics and more while you waited, so get ready to waste some time in the most exquisite ways.
First, the very good news: Version 4.0 of The Ultimate Tape Archive, a compilation of Commodore 64 cassette-based software, has been released, with Internet Archive as the primary download!
https://archive.org/details/Ultimate_Tape_Archive_V4.0
16gb of cassette based software, scans of the cassettes and inlays and instructions.
The even better news: The collection has ALL of them, emulated!
https://archive.org/details/ultimatetapearchive
That's 2000 tapes for you to enjoy.
If you didn't already know, the Internet Archive has been hiring artists to perform pre-meeting mini-concerts twice a week since the pandemic started. We now have over 200 archived on our site for you to enjoy too:
https://blog.archive.org/2023/02/17/the-internet-archive-musiczoom-collection-continues/
Earlier this year, I became aware of STANDARD EBOOKS, a donation-dependent group of edtiors and layout experts who have been doing the amazing work of taking out-of-copyright books, turning them into top-quality ebooks, and then releasing them for free.
Some of the books they've done are in the Internet Archive here:
https://archive.org/details/standardebooks
They're seeking 75 patrons in December to keep themselves afloat, consider donating to this amazing cause.
So, don't tell anybody, but we're going to announce Palm Pilot emulation in the browser at Internet Archive in the next week or so. I've still got to get descriptions in for the hundreds of apps that are uploaded, and add a few more classics. But if you want to help with that, or just let me know how it's going, ping me here.
But don't tell anybody! It's a secret!
Earlier this year someone donated about 600 VHS tapes of live recordings of bands from the 1970s to the 1990s, that were in the archives of a small Houston-based record store chain. They put them up for auction, and a group bought me the whole batch.
Well, half of them are digitized:
https://archive.org/details/diamondheadtapes?sort=-publicdate
Part of my job is fighting spam uploads. For your consideration, I am currently going through 6,500 (six thousand five hundred) potential spam candidates to remove them from view. It's easily the most thankless part of the job, and a bunch of us our doing it. The price of open!
@humanc3p0 Thank youuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
Seth MacFarlane was clearly so affected by this (and his encyclopedic knowledge of lounge and lounge acts likely played a part) that Family Guy gives a contextless reference to the entire perfomance here:
At the 1978 Science Fiction Film Awards, William Shatner provided one of the most unique covers of a pop song, certainly in a sci-fi convention, but maybe at any convention, or anywhere.
Over the years, Shatner has weirdly denied it happened, but it did, and Flemishdog found a U-MATIC videotape with an unaltered, high-quality version of Shatner's "Rocket Man". And here it is.
@unitof No, much worse copies existed here and there.
Does everyone know about the awesome Old-Time Radio collection, which has literal years of audio of classic radio shows? Drama, Mystery, Comedy, and more. One of the crown jewels of the archive.
@capeta My favorites are Johnny Dollar (the Bob years), Philip Marlowe, and the Sherlock Holmes.
@enfors I made a choice that Socks was a pure twitter thing that lived and came to a close with the platform. I'm sure I'll find another way to have a million followers on the Fediverse. :)
"Ray, if someone drops the October 2021-November 2022 "Spritzer" feed of Twitter into your lap and asks if you want it... you say YES."
@ionsolo_2 The key is "spritzer" format, which is a subset of tweets.
Internet Archive has many contributing Citizen Archivists, and one of them is Marcin Wichary (who is fascinating in his own right) who has uploaded hundreds of Typewriter-based knowledge and documents. They're in a collection here:
Hey there, Admin of the Internet Archive Mastodon here. I've seen some people speculate/rumor that the Archive's mastodon instance is set up to be an involuntary vacuum spot for all toots passing back into the Wayback, and it is NOT that. Any archiving of toots would be some other project (and outside my knowledge) but the Internet Archive Mastodon is just another instance, doing the mastodon thing. Communicate with us at will.
There is a moment, a joyous moment, between when the staff stands ready, feet shuffle quietly, a hush and a murmur runs in the space before the giant doors creak open and the day's endeavors begin.
And this is that moment.
Welcome to Mastodon, Internet Archive.
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