Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/08/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 09:46 PM 16-08-97 -0400, Michael wrote: [snip] >For the past year or so, since I became involved in digital darkroom work, I have been scanning all of my best work from the past 10 years or so and storing the files on CD ROM. These have a claimed life expectancy of many decades (Kodak claims 200 years for their CDs) and this makes me a lot more confident that my images will be accessable to me and others in years to come. It also helps avoid the inevitable fading of color materials. > Do you think that 200 years from now people will have technology that can read your CDs? Can you read an 8 inch floppy that was made maybe 10 years ago? Or even a 5 1/4 floppy? Dan C.