Digital BW, The Print

ArleneLoveL@... wrote:
> I have a whole book stored  on 3 1/2" floppies made on 
> a Brothers Word Processor  in about 1987. There's not a 
> machine around that can read those floppies. 

Yes, but how many of those Brothers-format disks ever existed in the
world?  It's probably in the tens or maybe hundreds of thousands at
most.  How many ISO9660 format CDs and DVDs exist?  It's at least in
the billions or tens of billions.  There's also no end in sight for
new formats that use the same 12cm optical disc form factor and which
are backwards compatible with older discs.

I'll bet there will ways to read CD-ROMs and DVD-ROMs for at least the
next 100 years.  I'm sure we'll be using other types of storage
technology long before then, but there is such a critical mass of data
in that format that there will be a market for readers for a long long
time.

--
Steve