Title
Verbatim DataLife 3½ in. diskettes,
Date
ca. 1990.
Subject
Gift of Sarah G. Kent.
Description
At RBS, course participants examine legacy storage formats such as these 3. in. Verbatim diskettes that formerly belonged to UVA IT staffer Sarah G. Kent. The handwritten labels on these digital storage devices are an interesting remnant of manuscript culture, while at the same time, the term “palimpsest,” normally applied to manuscripts, has been adopted to describe overwritten digital storage media. Indeed, Kent reused these disks to create backups for her IBM 386 PC and her Macintosh Classic.
Source
From the collection of Rare Book School