In a message dated 11/13/2007 12:57:07 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
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The old bugabear about "who knows how long CDs
will last" is simply a cop-out to permit one to avoid the unpleasant task of
doing the scanning work. I have CDs that are over 20-years of age that are
still just fine (I have backup copies I made 10 years ago when the first
alarmism about their longevity was bandied-about).
The Smithsonian Institution stopped buying each stage of computer to read
all the types of memory encoding formats because the changes outpaced their
storage capabilities. A chap from the Smithsonian spoke before the History
Department, San Diego State University 20-years ago and begged everyone to copy
their material on acid-free materials and find an institution to curate the
paper. I suggest you deliver the raw data to the agencies that caused you to
create the paper and let them deal with them under the National Records Act. Did
you read the news on Friday that emails can no longer be deleted because it
violates the NARA?
Ron May
Legacy 106, Inc.
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