redditletter: top posts for archival between 2024-01-12 and 2024-01-19

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Here are the top 20 Reddit posts between January 12 2024 and January 19 2024 for category: archival. This category includes posts from the following subreddits: datahoarder, undelete, lostmedia, vintagemenus, dhexchange, and archivists. Enjoy!

🔗 This is what a ceramic cartridge with a 10,000TB capacity looks like - system that can store data for 5000+ years edges closer to commercialization as working archival data rack gets readied for 2024 launch

// 620 ▲ by OnlyForSomeThings on /r/DataHoarder. Comments

📷 The largest consumer SSD that has been available each year at Newegg (2007-2023)

// 375 ▲ by CokeZoro on /r/DataHoarder. Comments

🗒 The official runescape forums are closing down for good. Decades worth of information is being deleted. Is there any way to back everything up?

https://secure.runescape.com/m=news/an-update-regarding-our-forums https://secure.runescape.com/m=f

// 365 ▲ by Monterey-Jack on /r/DataHoarder. Comments

📷 Just got 2x 4TB WD 850x from Best Buy and one of them turned out to be 2TB

// 289 ▲ by prashanth1337 on /r/DataHoarder. Comments

📷 Vintage doggy bag.

// 287 ▲ by ProDvorak on /r/VintageMenus. Comments

📷 "Family photo" of my optical media store

// 235 ▲ by danielrosehill on /r/DataHoarder. Comments

📷 The Barrels, Kalamazoo, Michigan (c. 1930s)

// 190 ▲ by HelloSlowly on /r/VintageMenus. Comments

📷 Roosevelt Motor Lodge |Waterville, Maine USA

// 183 ▲ by poss-um on /r/VintageMenus. Comments

🗒 I scanned about 15K old photos, negatives, and slides. Mostly to prevent degradation of the originals. But not sure what to do with the physical copies.

It seems a big shame to throw them away. But one of the benefits of scanning them was to reduce...

// 184 ▲ by bluegambit875 on /r/DataHoarder. Comments

🗒 [Talk] Is there any surviving footage or known lost footage of a living person born in the 1700s?

I started thinking about this just recently. Since film was invented in 1889, it would have been...

// 176 ▲ by Conkers-Good-Furday on /r/lostmedia. Comments

📷 The dinner menu from the ship that brought my great grandparents and their three children from England to Australia in 1953.

// 165 ▲ by jem4water2 on /r/VintageMenus. Comments

📷 Childs' Restaurant menu, New York (1907)

// 160 ▲ by HelloSlowly on /r/VintageMenus. Comments

📷 St Nicholas Hotel NYC - November 17, 1866

// 160 ▲ by yeneewsc on /r/VintageMenus. Comments

🗒 [FOUND] World Cup 2010 - Wavin' Flags & Singing Soccer Balls animation by FunVideoTV

World Cup 2010 - Wavin' Flags & Singing Soccerballs - Animated Clip (also known as WC2010, World...

// 137 ▲ by karlodann on /r/lostmedia. Comments

📷 Enamel pins for archivists

// 48 ▲ by Nellbell18 on /r/Archivists. Comments

🗒 Has anyone moved from Archives sector to high paying and/or fully remote jobs?

Just wondering what others' experience may be and what sort of careers they've gone on to. I'm a...

// 20 ▲ by Jiuzhaigou on /r/Archivists. Comments

🗒 If someone requests political content, don't assume that they agree with the content they're requesting.

For all you know, they could be assembling a "predictions that aged like milk" video, or they just...

// 6 ▲ by CaptainGuyliner2 on /r/DHExchange. Comments

🗒 [#18|+6978|286] Pedro Pascal Takes His Trans Sister Lux As His Date To The Emmys [r/lgbt]

// 6 ▲ by FrontpageWatch2020 on /r/undelete. Comments

🗒 [#7|+7448|654] TIL Nazi SS officer Klaus Barbie, AKA ‘Butcher of Lyon’ for his torture of Jews and French resistance, was smuggled by the US to Bolivia for anticommunist work. For 30 years he also aided multiple dictatorial regimes, paramil… [r/todayilearned]

// 7 ▲ by FrontpageWatch2020 on /r/undelete. Comments

🗒 Mirror of HP's FTP server? Trying to hunt down some tape library firmware

Does anyone happen to have a mirror of HP's public ftp server (ftp.hp.com) which was shut down some...

// 6 ▲ by filesystems on /r/DHExchange. Comments

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