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I forget if I reported this anecdote, but as part of my public history
program in graduate school I attended a lecture by a fellow from the Smithsonian.
He showed slides of an entire wing set aside and full of evolutionary stages
of computers in 1986. They finally stopped collecting because the technology
has changed so rapidly. He also reported that the super computers used to
read the Armed Forces records of the Viet Nam War started out as twins, but when
we retreated from Saigon in 1975, that computer was left behind ... and when
they got the files back to the U.S, they found the sibling computer had
changed dramatically... so much that it could not read the files from Viet Nam;
to this day, no one can read those files. His conclusion was that nothing can
beat hard copies of acid-free paper that is stored in cold, dry rooms with
little UV light, no dust, and no critters. I see nothing has really changed
when it comes to long-term storage of photo digital images.
Ron May
Legacy 106, Inc.
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