[game_preservation] Kotaku: Videogame History MuseumKickstarter short on funds

[Christian Bartsch]

I know such problems from DVD manufacturing. Some bonding isn't stable, and in combination with the wrong packaging (color with solvents), can lead to the bonding becoming blind or worse.

Such problems might arise with floppy disks, too, although this would be more an issue of the coating coming off the surface. Moisture is also a problem. So for preservation the removal of shrink wrap is a must. I already found some games looking very well, that were full of mould.

I doubt static effects should be an issue, given the fact that cassettes come with their own style of packaging, as well as floppy disks.

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Christian Bartsch
The Software Preservation Society
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On 23 Aug 2011, at 18:24, Henry Lowood wrote:


> Interestingly, there is apparently some evidence (I've been told this) that leaving magnetic media in a plastic-sealed (shrinkwrap) container might accelerate the rate of data loss.  I was told this by conservation librarians, and the main reason appears to be that outgasing of materials inside the box is not vented through the shrinkwrap.  Also, in some cases, e.g., the packaging of audiocassettes in a plastic baggie, there is apparently a possibility of some static effects that might affect the magnetic media.  Again, so I've been told ...  I'm a little skeptical about the static issue, but the outgasing makes sense to me; that's an issue with other media as well, and indeed with any plastic materials.

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> Henry


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