On Thursday, July 27, 2017 at 12:06:22 PM UTC-5, wrote:
On Thu, 27 Jul 2017 11:39:47 -0400, wrote:

On Wed, 26 Jul 2017 20:55:04 -0700, Bob F wrote:

On 7/26/2017 7:14 PM, trader_4 wrote:
On Wednesday, July 26, 2017 at 3:23:06 PM UTC-4, Bob F wrote:
On 7/24/2017 5:18 AM, Frank wrote:


I'm considering one of those one box deals where you fill it with old
films, media and tapes etc and for a couple of hundred bucks get all
copied to modern media.

Which unfortunately dies of age 5-10 years down the line, or there is no
longer a device to read it available.

Once it's converted to digital you can easily move it to future digital media every 10 years, or as needed, with no loss in quality. If it's important, then it should be duplicated on different types of storage, cloud, etc. It's orders of magnitude better than old pictures that are subject to deterioration.

I've got 100 year old pictures. And I can see what they are immediately..
An old, even "archival" CD. What are you going to look at it on? If you
even bother.

I suspect most of such things will disappear.
Get the important stuff off of "media" and onto "archival paper"

The government and industry disagree with you. The last bastions of
big piles of moldy paper are going electronic. These days court
documents and legal documents are PDF files. The day of paper files
may finally be behind us, only 40 years after it was predicted by the
computer folks.


When I see a new doctor, I hand the doctor a thumb drive with my information on it. It will probably get to the point where you transfer your information from your smartphone to a medical practitioner's phone or tablet. I don't own a smartass phone so I stick to a thumb drive. ヽ(ヅ)ノ

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