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On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 06:07:31 GMT, Anthony Matonak
wrote: Gordon Reeder wrote: (MrPepper11) wrote in news:57cfd534.0411092215.52655784 @posting.google.com: In the meantime, individual PC owners struggle in private. Desk drawers and den closets are filled with obsolete computers, stacks of Zip disks and 3«-inch diskettes, even the larger 5¬-inch floppy disks from the 1980's. Short of a clear solution, experts recommend that people copy their materials, which were once on vinyl, film and paper, to CD's and other backup formats. Not to mention the 8 inch disks from the 70's. As I look at my PC I see that it has the 3.5" and 5.25" floppy drives from it's predisessors sitting right on top of a CD-burner. Oh, FWIW, I long since coppied the data from my 8" floppies to 5.25" Let's not forget all those miles of punch tape, 9 track reels, punch cards and a seemingly endless series of QIC, DAT and 8mm tapes. I would suggest that the majority of material that gets lost isn't worth much and the rest people will spend money to preserve. Anthony Exactly, Computer porn, MP3s and digital cameras weren't prolific in the days of punched cards. The anti-digital pundits just bring this up because they are grasping at straws. -- Owamanga! |
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