[Milsurplus] [MRCA] Lunar Photos

[J. Forster]

It's obviously s serious problem, but consider:

How much data we have now compared to even 100 years ago.

How much of current data is even worth saving.

-John

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> Compare the longevity of storage media used by ancient civilizations
> (stone) vs our modern societies ("electrons" on physical tape or, worse
> yet, within ICs.)   I often wonder how much of our current culture will
> really be preserved for future generations, with our art, music,
> photography, historical records, etc. all "preserved" on such evanescent
> media.    73 deGene Smar  AD3F  On 04/25/14, J. Forster wrote: I still
> have the capability of reading punch cards, reading and punching
> paper tape, and 7 track mag tape. Some of the older mag tape is flakeing
> badly and won't be readable for much longer.
>
> -John
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>> Platforms come and go at alarming speed these days. Not uncommon to see
>> pallets of tapes being sold at Wallops or Goddard for next to nothing.
>> The
>> last couple years there have been almost endless lots of D1 digital
>> video
>> cassettes, a huge expensive non compressed digital format for analog
>> NTSC
>> Here at the university we just pulled some one inch C format video tapes
>> we had from the nineties and found that all the local TV stations no
>> longer have that format and am now looking at trying to find a playback
>> deck for that format. We still have a working 16 MM projector and am
>> surprised by how many have come and wanted us to transfer from that to
>> video. The problem is not that there is not the media out there but the
>> equipment to transfer the old media to any current format is the issue.
>> In the last five or ten years I have been working with old DEC computers
>> at home, maybe more then with radios. The thing that occupies the most
>> time is rebuilding drives and copying media with one of the largest
>> ongoing projects being transferring old files to more modern platforms
>> and
>> getting modern systems to be able to push software to old systems.
>> That's
>> the big project around the shop these days.
>>
>> Ray F
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