How to Preserve Old Software and Media Yourself
Image floppies at the flux level with Greaseweazle or KryoFlux, verify with checksums, follow 3-2-1 storage, and archive disks before they fade.
Step-by-step, task-oriented guides — do this, in this order, to get this result.
Image floppies at the flux level with Greaseweazle or KryoFlux, verify with checksums, follow 3-2-1 storage, and archive disks before they fade.
Move from a secondhand claim to a verified fact using SEC filings, court opinions via RECAP, Usenet archives, and contemporaneous announcements.
Use Google Patents, Espacenet, and USPTO records — filing dates, prior art, assignments, litigation — to trace who actually built what first.
Plan around live demos like CHM's IBM 1401 and Bletchley's Colossus rebuild, mine oral history archives, and use collection databases remotely.
Find dated captures of any URL, compare page versions over time, query the CDX API, and cite Wayback Machine snapshots as real primary sources.
Setting up Microsoft's free, browser-based server management console as a modern alternative to a collection of separate MMC snap-ins and RDP.
How to retire deprecated Microsoft Defender Application Guard, choose supported browser or container isolation, and validate the replacement without losing controls.
Packaging and deploying an MSI installer to multiple computers automatically via Group Policy Software Installation — no third-party deployment tool.
Enabling Hyper-V and creating a working virtual machine — Windows' own native, type-1 hypervisor, built directly into Pro and Enterprise editions.
Setting up Just Enough Administration so a support team runs specific, pre-approved remote commands without ever holding full admin rights.