Posted by Long John on 08/04/06 06:15

"Bob" <spam@uce.gov> wrote in message
news:44a66f3c.80777218@news-server.houston.rr.com...
> On Sat, 01 Jul 2006 07:27:15 -0400, Rick Merrill
> <rick0.merrill@NOSPAMgmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> OK, then buy the most expensive discs, but let us know that you are
>>> planning to do that so we will know.
>
>>And call back in 20 years to see how it all worked out!-)
>
> Pretty soon flash memory is going to be priced so cheaply that we can
> afford to archive using it. For now the only safe way to know your
> content will be around in 20 years is to put it on a hard disk.

But will the hard drives of today even function 20 years from now..?

Will computers in the future have compatible connections..?

Back in 1984 I started out using Wordstar in a Morrow cpm machine
that used EIGHT INCH FLOPPIES, and the Seagate ST225 (20 Mb)
was barely invented... How many machines today can accomodate an
8" floppy, or for that matter, a ST225 drive ..?

As a broadcaster who has seen celluloid film crumble with age, I'd do 3
redundant
Data Disk backups at a slower burn speed "just to make sure"...

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