Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/08/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>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. Seriously? -- of course not. But, I expect that as time passes I will = be able to transfer the digital files to ever larger media. For = example, within the next 12 months it's expected that DVD-ROM drives = will become available with between 4-8 GB per disk. Who knows what will = become available over the coming years? The point is that there is = always a decent overlap period during which both old and new mediums are = currently available. CD, for example, is now such a ubiquitious medium (tens of millions of = drives -- hundreds of millions of disks) that I think there'll be little = difficulty reading them for many years to come. (Of course DVD is = backwardly compatible which will perpetuate this even further). I'm more concerned though whether anyone will be able to recognize = Photoshop 4 format in the year 2198 AD. Will Photoshop 84.2 be = backwardly compatible with Photoshop 4.0 :-) Michael