Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Wed, 17 Mar 2010, Tim Gray wrote: > On Mar 17, 2010 at 01:01 PM -0700, John Edwin Mason wrote: >> 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. > > You might not be able to read them by the time you decide to take a look. > I have a number of things stored on CD and floppy from when I was in high > school and college (10-15 years ago) that are gone, either due to media > corruption or just plain not being able to read the file format. I think in the futur, people will store they data online on the internet (or what some people call "in the cloud") with online backup providers. So you don't need to bother about unreadable medias or things like that, you put the data on their systems, and they replicate it on several medias to avoid hardware failures. Nicolas -- http://boklm.eu/