Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/12/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Laser-etched gold disks are the most archival digital format today. They will last every bit as long as their analog counterpart, the gold-cast LP record, like the one sent up with Voyager. Me I only need to keep stuff a few decades, after that I doubt anyone will care if they are lost because I'll be too demented to work the computer anyway. Anyway, it is common knowledge that all real photographic art is produced in gelatin silver anyway, so that should last a hundred years or so, assuming we can learn to control fire a little better. In the fires around here recently a friend lost their place - all their stuff gone, photos, music discs, everything, including a bronze Remington statue that was reduced to ashes. Talk about bit-rot! Cheerfully Yours, - - marc On Dec 30, 2003, at 2:48 PM, JCB wrote: [snip] > All current digital media dies over a relatively short time period as > compared with its analog counterpart. And, don't forget that > technology changes may make that digital media that you stored away > today, unable to be read back tomorrow. I still have some double sided > 8" floppies with files on them. Neither do I have an 8" floppy drive > (Shugart 851) nor would the data still be there if I had a drive. > Likewise with the 5-1/4 floppies that I have. I have a 5=1/4 drive but > at least 25% of the floppies are unreadable because of magnetic bit > rot. > > Just be aware of the potential future problems and plan ahead. > > JB > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html