4 Feb
2007
4 Feb
'07
7:28 p.m.
Al Kossow wrote:
Why is this a "huge issue"? My father made xerox copies of his
important papers; I make regular backups. What's changed?
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As strange as
it seems, I think we lost a lot of personal
correspondence when hard disks became the rule on PC systems.
This is a huge issue amongst archivists.
"Personal papers" aren't on paper any more, if they exist
at all they are directories full of email.