7 Nov
2008
7 Nov
'08
3:06 a.m.
I urge you to keep the paper copy. Paper is one of the
longest
preservable forms of information. Properly taken care of it will last
centurys. Even Computer Shopper with its acid based paper would last a
couple of centuries boxed in a dry environment.
No, not that newsprint crap. It will start disintegrating within 50
years, and the costs associated with acid paper stabilization are very
high. I see how the hobby publications of the 1940s are falling apart
now, and Computer Shopper is in the same danger.
The paper would be good to keep, however, I would not count on it
being archival in any way. Like it, or (mostly) not, Computer Shopper
is a very important slice of computing history.
--
Will