15 Mar
2011
15 Mar
'11
6:05 a.m.
Michael Thompson wrote:
From: Joachim
Thiemann <joachim.thiemann at gmail.com>
By curious coincidence, one of my labmates just asked me for some
original data from my Master's thesis, and luckily I have that data
backed up on CD-R - from 1999 (Maxell gold-coloured CD-R74, if that
makes a difference). Tar.gz files, and still reads fine 12 years
later on a modern machine (Mac mini) without special hardware or
software.
My wife's Master's thesis is on RX01 floppies made with WPS-8.
Someday I will get the files converted to something more modern.