5 Apr
2013
5 Apr
'13
2:58 p.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-
bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Dave Woyciesjes
Sent: Friday, April 05, 2013 10:56 AM
To: ClassicCMP
Subject: Tech is the biggest problem facing archiving ? The Register
And interesting (and seemingly straight-forward) article about issues
we face & discussed:
Tech is the biggest problem facing archiving Mountains of unreadable
obsolete magnetic tapes!
By Chris Mellor
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/04/03/archive_technology_problem/
Popular press puffery. There are people looking seriously at these issues, rather than
running around like Chicken Little. Oh, except the Microsoft problem: my daughter's
homework is often sent to her in the latest version, which can't be read by any
version that runs on a PPC-based Mac. Fortunately, my work laptop is a Macbook Air, but
that's not an actual solution for the problem of anti-sustainable product churn. --
Ian