[Milsurplus] [MRCA] Lunar Photos

[J. Forster]

When storage and access was expensive, people had privacy. Now nameless,
faceless functionaries can find out everything about everybody and use it
against people and groups of enemais.

Orwell was an optomist.

YMWV,

-John

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> With stone, only the most valued info was stored. Now data storage is
> asymptotically approaching zero so everything is stored. No wonder we need
> Google!  But, the flip side is a rapidly expanding (exponential) increase
> in technological achievement.
>
>
> Peter
>
>> On Apr 25, 2014, at 6:54 PM, "J. Forster" <jfor at quikus.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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
>>>
>>> ================
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> 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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