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Re: [Digital BW] Re: storage

2004-11-25 by Wendel White

This is why museums that purchase digital works (art that runs on a
computer) for the collection often buy the hardware as well as the
"software" artwork, so that in the future there is still a good chance of
displaying the work. I do have a small collection of drives that support the
various removable media I have used over the years, just In case I come
across a disk I forgot to update.

Wendel

> <<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. >>
> 
> If you are referring to the same Brother word
> processor as my daughter used in college, Brother used
> a proprietary formatting such that it was not readable
> by any other computer, even then.....
> 
> Jerry in Houston

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