Posted by Steve Guidry on 01/11/84 11:45

You guys are missing the point of any serious effort to do archiving.

The _REAL_ issue is not "how long does the media last ? " Tather, it's
"How long can I keep an obsolete format player running ?"

Steve

P. S. Anyone have an 8-track player I can transfer my old McGinnis Flint
and Badfinger tapes with ?



"Bible John" <johnw_94020@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> > And what do you do whilest at Disneyland and you fill the hard drive up
> > the
> > first day????? Not everyone lugs a laptop around with them on vacation
>
> I agree. I think these HD camcorders will be bad and really only for
> certain people. As for me I prefer tapes. This is yet one reason, why I
> refuse to downgrade my nice Sony microcassette tape unit, to one of these
> digitals. With tape I can archive, with digital forget it. With tape the
> recorindings last, with digital they will not.
>
> I'll bet money that in 10 years I will still be able to play my tapes. I
> have audio tapes from 1987 that still play like a charm, and microtapes
> recorded in 1994 that also play like a charm. With digital everything is
> changing so often.
>
> Some people claim that tape deteriates overtime. Perhaps this is a myth,
> because not a single one of my many, many audio tapes has deteriated over
> time!
>
> I have about 50 microtapes and about 80-100 audiotapes.
>
> For example the standard and prime audio format that the Mac used in 1987
is
> no longer supported under OSX, and in order for me to play all my old
> recordings I have to use a old classic app, which is not supported on the
> new Intel macs. So when I move to Intel (perhaps I kight just move to a PC
> when my ibook finally breaks) I will lose all my recordings from the
> 1994-1999 era.
>
> No thank you, I think I'll stick with tape. Law enforcement and many
others
> agree, its the best way. Go do some research and see that many still are
> using tapes.
>
> The audio formats of today will probably have a hard time playing on the
> computers of 10 years.
>
> No thanks I'll stick with my tapes!
>
> They are not dead. What is dead, is digital which wont play on anything
in
> 10 years. Thats whats dead.
>
>
> John
>
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