[Milsurplus] [Boatanchors] [BoatAnchors] An object lesson

[Glen Zook via Milsurplus]

I hope that "modern" paper will last long enough that the "hard copy" would survive.  However, the paper made today definitely doesn't have the inherent capability to survive a long time like the papers that were made centuries ago did!
Of course, as technology advanced, I would certainly make new copies using that technology!  By the way, there are still ways to read those old 160k floppy discs although definitely not that commonplace. Glen, K9STH

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On 4/15/2015 1:10 PM, Ian Wilson wrote:
> I have seen CD ROMs start to fail after a decade or so. This doesn't
> look like a very permanent medium for archival.
>

And even if CDs and DVDs do last, will there be any working drives left in a decade to put them in?