Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/07/07

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To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: Film choice: Durability...
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@gp.magick.net>
Date: Sun, 07 Jul 1996 23:30:03 -0700

At 11:12 PM 7/7/96 -0400, you wrote:

>Also, the copying is not expensive, because (a) the digitization is
>what cost money -- copying files on a computer costs very little, and
>(b) the digital storage that your photographs occupy will be much much
>cheaper by the time the next generation of digital media comes along.

All good points. Some day, if what they say is true we will be storing
things on the molecular level, the storage we need will take up a couple
cubic centimeters, and will be nearly unlimited. Then we won't even have to
worry about deleting files, or copying them more than for backup. But
imagine the search engines we'll need. Personal Yahoo! <G>

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Eric Welch
Grants Pass Daily Courier
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Region 11


Immature poets borrow, mature poets steal"

T. S. Eliot