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

[Bill Patterson <patterson@computer.org>]

I have some FORTRAN on punch cards (stiff paper, basically).  Does 
anyone know a utility to enable them to run through a scanner and be 
decoded into ASCII?

Bill

On 3/11/2014 8:51 PM, Art Clemons wrote:
> 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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