5 Jan
2018
5 Jan
'18
3:10 p.m.
On 01/05/2018 02:37 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
I don't know how long YOU expect to live, but I
don't think that I will
last as long as a lot of my data (which FEW if ANY will want)?? (But,
I've asked my lawyer to place in my will, provisions for my collection
of "alien" disks to go to Eric Smith and Al Kossow.? As well as
authorizations for certain people to take whatever they want of my
personal property)
I suppose that I should at least catalog my "alien" media--there's a lot
of it. One of these days. It's hard enough to keep the stuff roughly
alphabetized.
At any rate, the latest study I can find on the longevity of optical
media is this 2005 NIST paper:
https://www.nist.gov/publications/nistlibrary-congress-loc-optical-media-lo…
--Chuck