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Re: [Digital BW] Archiving digital -- it's not the media, it's the device

2005-03-17 by Steve Kale

Oh god here we go again...how many (or few) months has it been since we went
through this last time?


> From: "Anthony G. Atkielski" <anthony@...>
> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 20:59:55 +0100
> To: Blaine Cavena <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Archiving digital -- it's not the media, it's the
> device
> 
> 
> Blaine Cavena writes:
> 
>> I'm not taking sides on the film/digital debate, but whether a CD
>> will last 300 years really isn't the issue.  The issue is whether
>> anyone will have a CD reader in 20 years.
> 
> There will be millions of CD readers in 20 years; that's not going to be
> a problem.
> 
> The real question is whether or not anyone will have bothered to record
> photos to CDs in the first place.  Right now, nobody is backing anything
> up.
>

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