Market popularity certainly prolongs the life of a technology. 3,5"
diskettes must be a good example too, but CDs have already been with
us for about 15 years. Does anyone know if that's the record for
storage media/technology? :-)
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From: "Leon Altoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <pentax-discuss@pdml.net>
Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 2:59 PM
Subject: Re: OT: How do you store your precious moments for posterity?
Storage is not just for computers any more.
When CD's came out the vinyl record disappeared, you can still get
record players.
Computers have become so tied up with the whole multi-media thing
that they NEED to maintain compatibility with people's CD and DVD
collections. My DVD collection is only about 100 or so, but I know
people with over 500 DVD's and countless CDs. The cost of
conversion is prohibitive and unless compatibility is maintained
then take up of any new technology will be slow. Manufacturers
don't want this so for a minor increase in cost they will build in
the compatibility - until the content suppliers come up with a new
way of licensing the content (and that is happening as we speak
too).
For the record I back up to CD, DVD and keep a hard drive copy.
Every 12 months or so I go back and randomly check the CD's and
DVD's to make sure that they are still readable. My early digital
stuff is on 2 CD's rather than a CD and DVD, but it is on one gold
CD and one silver CD, because no one could tell me what the
difference between them was.
Leon
http://www.bluering.org.au
http://www.bluering.org.au/leon
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.
Jostein
Quoting Mark Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
This looks interesting:
http://www.imaginginfo.com/article/article.jsp?siteSection=3&id=1641
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