[ARC5] New Homes for Old Warriors...

[Scott Robinson]

Old media are readable, just takes a bit of digging to find someone with 
the right hardware.

Cloud storage solves this problem.

Regards,

Scott

On 5/27/18 1:37 AM, Military Wireless Museum via ARC5 wrote:
> 
> 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
> --------------------------------
> 
> 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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