Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/04/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> No current digital medium is known to last more than 25 years. People > suspect that CD Roms will, but no one knows. But we know film lasts 100 > years, because we have 100-year-old film that still holds its > information. Ah, this old 'topic' ;-) Digital information, technically, can last forever. Since there is no information loss when making a copy, you can copy it ad-infinitum. The only problem is, you do have to keep copying it... Hopefully, the time between copying will increase over time...