Pressed discs are much more archivally (not sure if this is a word)
sound. Burned discs only have about a 5-8 year lifespan pressed discs
can last much longer to the 15-20+ year marks.
I do not know of a shop, but usually when you do pressed discs you
cant do a few its usually like getting a 100+
for an online/data solution i would suggest Dspace.org as the
technology as it is designed for long term data archives of media of
many formats. it might be allot like a sledgehammer but if you can get
a place online to run this thing for a fair amount of time you can use
it to great effect.
lossy result. (if someone wants to chat about this feel free to
contact me as we don't have a true answer yet)
How'bout carving it in stone?
It used to work thousands of years ago...
ET
PS: Sorry, I couldn't resist... ;-)
Stephen writes:
Pressed discs are much more archivally (not
What about using the long life CD's / DVD's? I bought some CD's from Fry's
E that claim to last more than 100 Years and DVD's that claim to lasr 100
years. Memorex Pro Gold.
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 9:28 AM, kitepi...@kitepilot.com
kitepi...@kitepilot.com wrote:
lossy result. (if someone
the issue with these is there is no way to know for sure if this will
work, because you kinda have to sit em around...
but ill have to look into it..
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 9:49 AM, G Gambillgwgamb...@gmail.com wrote:
What about using the long life CD's / DVD's? I bought some CD's from Fry's
I have access to an out of print genealogy/family history book which
was previously cut apart, scanned and copies made (I didn't get one.).
I'd like to scan it in again but this time put the scanned pages on a
CD or DVD. Does anyone know of a reputable shop that they would
recommend for this?
From: Mark Jarvis m.jar...@cox.net
I'd like to scan it in again but this time put the scanned pages
on a CD or DVD. Does anyone know of a reputable shop that they
would recommend for this? I could scan the pages myself, but
would prefer to find a source for making pressed disks.
Any place
Great info--Thanks!
-mj-
Matt Graham wrote:
From: Mark Jarvis m.jar...@cox.net
I'd like to scan it in again but this time put the scanned pages
on a CD or DVD. Does anyone know of a reputable shop that they
would recommend for this? I could scan the pages myself, but
would
I think I read (or heard) somewhere, that for archival purposes (like this,
or for data backup of any kind), it is better to use one of those WORM
devices -- (write once, read mostly)
-- instead of erasable discs, which even though they may be called
CD-ROM discs, they are designed so that you can
