12 May
2003
12 May
'03
9:05 p.m.
True, but I
doubt that Hans or any of the rest of us are planning on
trashing the originals after they've been copied.
Maybe not on this list, but I have seen it happen far too often
elsewhere. People think the latest/greatest storage media must be more
reliable that something that's rather more ancient... I think the
thing to remember is, just because you've transferred
something from original media to "modern" (for the moment) media, you
aren't off the hook forever. Those same copies will have to be
copied to "modern" media at some point in the future. Depending on
I would never want to rely on this happening, simply because it won't
always happen. People forget, or they assume tbat nobody will ever what
'that old file'. And then it's lost for ever.