28 Mar
2023
28 Mar
'23
6:35 p.m.
On 3/28/23 18:06, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
At Comdex and West Coast Computer Faire, I used an
advertising slogan of
"save your data from extinction". In the booth, we had some inflatable
dinosaurs, including a T. Rex taking a bite out of an 8" Verbatim disk.
Some kid came up and told my assistant, "That's not real!"
Bob replied, "Well, of course not, they won't let us bring live
dinosaurs into the exhibt hall." The kid responded, "not that, stupid.
There's no such thing as a disk like that."
Bob was unable to get the kid to believe that 8" disks had once existed.
The shipment that was being returned via Fedex, was, in fact 70 8 inch
diskettes, ca. 1983--all read just fine.
I guess that's a concern for our current removable media, be it Blu-ray
DVD, USB pen drive, microSD card, or cloud. I wonder how much of that
will still be accessible after 40 years. Or if it will matter...
--Chuck