Re: Scanning only goes so far.
Andy Civil <[email protected]>
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On Sat Jun 17 14:00:10 2006 Charles MacDonald wrote: > Andy Civil wrote: >>I have a load of old cassette tapes; instead of wondering which to throw >>out, they're being systematically mp3'd catalogued and trashed. Same >>with home movies. > > > > AACK! AACH! > > NOOOOOO. > > Many home movies are on Glorious KODACHROME film. It will be arround in > a humdreed years if kept cool and dry. CD roms are maybe good for 5 > years. You need a real plan if you are going to keep digital data in > good shape over a long period. You need a desk drawer to keep > Kodachrome happy. Scan if you wish, it does make ACESS eisier, but > store away the originals for the next time your format changes and you > need to start over from the orignials. > You know Charles, I checked out the first CD I wrote, which was 1996-09-20 (it just turned sixteen, and will be out buying beers soon) and it's just fine. I'm just getting to the point of writing all my old CDs to hard disk. I think they'll all fit on a 1Tb disk for about $80, and if I have a redundant spare, that's a whack of space I've saved for $160. Hey, do you remember the days when we used to back up our hard disks to CD? LOL what a turnaround. -- Andy -- OCLUG general discussion list [email protected] http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/oclug