----- Original Message ----- From: "Godfrey DiGiorgi"
Subject: Re: OT: How do you store your precious moments for posterity?
It is not comparable to learning how to operate a computer and knowing what to do to move data, which simply takes storage devices, a little time with a book, and a plan to do what is required. Nearly anyone can do it, except for the very incompetent.
The very vast majority of people are not interested in this subject. They want technology that works, is simple, and doesn't require much thought or maintenance. Up intil recently, the vadt majority of pictures were stored on a hard copy, and were easily accessed, all one had to do was take the negative or print to the lab and place an order. Now that the computer industry has taken over the job of image storage, it has a defacto responsibility to the consumer to emulate the simplicity of film based image storage. This means a responsible approach to long term standards of file storage, and a long term approach to file retrieval.
William Robb
