On 3/21/07, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 3/21/07, Tom Buskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I *have* heard horror stories about optical discs. Manufacturing
defects have lead to problems after only a few years. Apparently,
those giant spindles of unmarked media you can buy for ten cents
On 3/22/07, Tom Buskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 3/21/07, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 3/21/07, Tom Buskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I *have* heard horror stories about optical discs. Manufacturing
defects have lead to problems after only a few years. Apparently,
those giant
[disregard previous empty message (stupid fingers)]
On 3/22/07, Tom Buskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would be interested to see hard data of actual performance in this
area, though.
NIST has a paper out on CD archival stuff.
The only NIST stuff I've seen has been discussing standards of
On 3/20/07, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Tom Buskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It'll be a sad day when CDs no longer have a device to play in. I
consolidated lots of old floppy media to a few CDs. I have hundreds of
CDs
now.
Something tells me there's someone out there who has
On 3/21/07, Tom Buskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've gone 5.25 + 3.5 floppies to CD.
DVDs are not as reliable for archiving as CDs. And CDs can be read by DVD
players so there's little reason to migrate away from them yet. Of course
4-5 CDs fit on 1 DVD so maybe it's easier to have 2-3 DVD
On 3/21/07, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 3/21/07, Tom Buskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've gone 5.25 + 3.5 floppies to CD.
DVDs are not as reliable for archiving as CDs. And CDs can be read by
DVD
players so there's little reason to migrate away from them yet. Of
course
4-5 CDs
Tom Buskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It'll be a sad day when CDs no longer have a device to play in. I
consolidated lots of old floppy media to a few CDs. I have hundreds of CDs
now.
Something tells me there's someone out there who has consolidated a bunch of:
- paper tape to punch cards
- paper tape to punch cards
- punch cards to 9-track tape
- 9-track tapes to 8 floppies
- 8 floppies to 5.25 floppies
- 5.25 floppies to 3.5 floppies
- 3.5 floppies to a CD
- CDs to DVD
And they'll probably consolidate all there DVDs someday to something
else. Somewhere,
Jon 'maddog' Hall wrote:
- paper tape to punch cards
- punch cards to 9-track tape
- 9-track tapes to 8 floppies
- 8 floppies to 5.25 floppies
- 5.25 floppies to 3.5 floppies
- 3.5 floppies to a CD
- CDs to DVD
And they'll probably consolidate all there DVDs someday to something
else.
