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Re:Lost Japanese Video Games Discovered in a Folder on a Pri... by eridius on Sunday June 10, 2018 @04:26PM (#17279987)
I thought Dr. Who's missing episodes wasn't because they didn't think of proper archiving and it degraded, but because they literally overwrote the tapes with other stuff.
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Re:Lost Japanese Video Games Discovered in a Folder on a Pri... by pavel_lishin on Sunday June 10, 2018 @06:27PM (#17280516)
That definitely falls under "improper archiving procedures", and is tremendously more embarassing than merely having the medium degrade.
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Re:Lost Japanese Video Games Discovered in a Folder on a Pri... by eridius on Monday June 11, 2018 @03:26AM (#17282446)
You say "improper archiving procedures", I say they clearly weren't even trying to archive it.
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