What didn't happen in the future

At 1:23 AM -0400 6/26/07, Teo Zenios wrote: This almost brings it back on topic :^) Personally I think if someone is going to take the time to rip a non-digital format they should do it in as high of quality as possible and keep that original lossless undoctored source file. I'd also recommend keeping a copy of the lossless cleaned up file as well (what can I say, I'm only doing this with 78's and it takes a lot of work to clean some of those up). I convert them to MP3 to put on my iPod. While I am keeping copies, I wouldn't be to surprised to learn that the 78's outlast the digital copies I make. If I was ripping vinyl I'd just about expect it. With the digital copies you have all the same problems facing you that we do with the preservation of classic computer data. At this point one of my major attempts to preserve the data is to keep it on multiple Hard drives. Zane -- | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator | | healyzh at aracnet.com (primary) | OpenVMS Enthusiast | | MONK::HEALYZH (DECnet) | Classic Computer Collector | +----------------------------------+----------------------------+ | Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, | | PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum. | | http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ |