Jostein wrote: > Very interesting indeed. Long-life media is a good start. > > If even the minimum estimate of 80 years holds, media > lifetime will not be the limiting factor. > > Second question: Will there be any CD-R readers to go round > in 80 years from now? > Personal computers have been with us for 25 years, and we've > already passed through several generations of storage media > that can no longer be read by mainstream computers.
This sort of question frightens me, as I have stuff I don't want to lose. The more I think about it, the answer was/is to take it on film to begin with. I've got negatives and slides going back many decades and they can't be wiped out by any computer error. We've gone through this many times and a generations films will be lost by mistake in some way or compatibility issue and film etc is more likely to survive at the back of a drawer. Grim. Malcolm
