{"id":16430,"date":"2014-03-16T14:18:10","date_gmt":"2014-03-16T18:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=16430"},"modified":"2014-03-16T14:23:42","modified_gmt":"2014-03-16T18:23:42","slug":"computer-backwards-compatibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2014\/03\/16\/computer-backwards-compatibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Computer Backwards Compatibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that I have installed a variant of Linux on my old computer, I could handle the format of the file on this tape.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16431\" alt=\"Tar Tape From 1983\" src=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_7482-Adjusted.jpg\" width=\"95%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_7482-Adjusted.jpg 800w, https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_7482-Adjusted-150x138.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_7482-Adjusted-300x276.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/div>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>The label says it is from 1983 and it is in TAR format.\u00a0 This format is still a mainstay on Linux computers.\u00a0 In this case, it is not a problem of software, but of hardware.\u00a0 I wonder if there are still any mag tape readers for this kind of\u00a0 tape. I also wonder if all the magnetized bits have faded into randomness.<\/p>\n<p>If you are wondering who Elsie was, she was my \u03bcVax computer in my office at Digital Equipment Corporation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that I have installed a variant of Linux on my old computer, I could handle the format of the file on this tape. The label says it is from 1983 and it is in TAR format.\u00a0 This format is still a mainstay on Linux computers.\u00a0 In this case, it is not a problem of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16430","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16430"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16434,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16430\/revisions\/16434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}