12 May
2003
12 May
'03
6:23 p.m.
hard disk had
headcrashed!. Why do people insist on transfering reliable
storage media onto modern, unreliable stuff? It's the same with
photographs and cine films -- people transfer them to CDs and DVDs. The
originals have a much longer life...
True, but I doubt that Hans or any of the rest of us are planning on
trashing the originals after they've been copied.
I have been (slowly) copying off old TU-58 carts with VMS 3.x and VMS 4.x
distros on them because, unlike paper tape, they _do_ degrade with age.
Equally, there are old storage devices that do decay with age, sure...
I think the thing to remember is, just because
you've transferred
something from original media to "modern" (for the moment) media, you
aren't off the hook forever. Those same copies will have to be
copied to "modern" media at some point in the future. Depending on
I would never want to rely on this happening, simply because it won't
always happen. People forget, or they assume tbat nobody will ever what
'that old file'. And then it's lost for ever.
-tony