Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Mar 17, 2010, at 9:56 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote: >> >> How likely is it that someone a generation or two from now will have the >> same >> experience with 50 year old digital photo files? (Prints, of course, are >> different.) >> >> BTW, I could also read many of my father's sermons. At least those that >> he >> wrote on his typewriter. Quite a few are on 5 and a quarter disks and >> were >> created in Wordstar. Will I ever read them? I can't honestly say. >> >> --John > > > Very likely. > ... that someone a generation or two from now will have the same > experience > with our 50 year old digital photo files. > Its the digital prints which will be most likely to be not intact. > > My family photos are in digital form now and I could be more glad about it. > In this hard disk right here on my table hooked up to what I'm typing into > and elsewise backed up on other hard disks. > My first sunburn in black and white in Jones beach I have it right here > want > to see it? yes please... > Baby pictures galore taking with Brownies. > The slides and prints in storage. And I hope its not too damp in there > there > could be mushrooms growing on my family album for all I know. > > [Rabs] > Mark William Rabiner > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information