Re: [PLUG] How to Archive Data for 20 Years?

[Art Clemons <artclemons@aol.com>]

On 03/11/2014 04:37 PM, Casey Bralla wrote:
> IMHO, there is __ONLY ONE__ media that is guaranteed to be machine-readable in
> 20 years:  paper.


I have some printouts of programs for long lamented RS Color Computer. 
Sadly even though I could likely scan them, the paper has somewhat 
deteriorated.  It's still legible (daisy wheel printers tended to 
produce legible print equivalent to at least a medium grade typewriter) 
but even if I did, the question would arise why would I want to run them 
on an emulator?  I long ago converted any data to several different 
formats (for various reasons I have to keep copies of my handiwork) and 
have had to load and then resave in a different format at least 4 times. 
Shades of getting a five meg harddrive and wondering how I would ever 
have enough to fill it up.


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