[ARC5] New Homes for Old Warriors...

[Military Wireless Museum]

4. The point I’m trying to make about #1 and #2 above is that if the physical radios don’t survive through the years for one reason or another, the digitized material on a website most likely will.

YMMV,
-tom KE4RHH
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The trouble with digital material is the storage method. 


In ancient Egypt, it was stone, lasts 1000's of years. 


The cd has come and gone, along with floppies etc, USB sticks will degrade after a few years, and even if you burn it into something how long will there be machines to read it?  Remember the 12inch laser machines, short-lived. 


Gov's and big companies spend £M's backing up data over and over to prevent degradation so what chance us?


Ben. G4BXD
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