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What’s In a Name?

This is not a media archaeology lab. This is not an archive. This is a research collection.

Residual Media Depot main slide deck

An introduction to all aspects of the Residual Media Depot in slide form (PDF, 5+MB. Version 1, 2017-06-07).

The Video Game Archaeologist

Profile of Darren Wershler and the Residual Media Depot by Karl Rettino-Parazelli for Le Devoir, June 5, 2017. Original here.

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The Residual Media Depot (RMD) is a project of the Media History Research Centre in the Milieux Institute at Concordia University, under the direction of Darren Wershler, the Concordia University Research Chair in Media & Contemporary Literature.

The RMD is a sister organization of the Media Archaeology Lab of the University of Colorado At Boulder and The Archaeologies of Media and Technology Research group (AMT) at the University of Southhampton.

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Milieux Institute
Engineering, Computer Science & Visual Arts Integrated Complex

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1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.
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@residualmedia on Twitter

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June 17, 2019

I was asked recently for a concise, jargon-free explanation of digital preservation for a non-specialist audience. Here it is.

June 17, 2019

In Canada right now, there are other, legal reasons for this Xbox hard drive exercise, though, which have to do with the right to circumvent technical protection measures (TPMs) for noninfringing uses. I’ll detail those shortly when I dump all this into a blog post.

June 17, 2019

Of course, you *could* just delete any old profiles on the new Xbox, then sign into the Xbox network with your existing profile and download everything again. But then you lose the unadulterated joy that comes from 10 minutes of faffing around with old hardware.

June 17, 2019

Boom. There are all your downloaded games and saves. All you have to do is sign back in to the Xbox network. You have just saved yourself a ton of money, depending on what (if anything) you paid for the replacement Xbox.

June 17, 2019

The drive bay on the 360s is on the right rear corner. Pull anything that’s there and drop your old drive in its new shell into place.

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