| Eric at Lucii.org on 12 Mar 2014 06:45:01 -0700 |
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| Re: [PLUG] How to Archive Data for 20 Years? |
On 03/11/2014 08:51 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. Speaking of a five meg harddrive: I had to laugh several years ago when I first boosted the RAM in my workstation to 4 Gig. That was more bytes than my first five hard drives *combined*... and cheaper than any one of them. Now I carry a $20 eight Gig usb stick in my pocket and don't even think of it as unusual. Moore's law rules! Eric -- # Eric Lucas # # "Oh, I have slipped the surly bond of earth # And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings... # -- John Gillespie Magee Jr ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug