[Milsurplus] CD life

[Ray Fantini]

All of this is something along the reasoning of " what good is a radio with a 807 or a 1625 in it, where you going to get one of those?" I have thirty year old removable RL  hard drive packs that still work well and are easy to maintain along with some 3/4 U-Matic video tapes that still work, would not use this stuff everyday but works well enough to transfer data to newer formats from time to time. The trick is to transfer relevant files to newer platforms. Don't think I will ever see an original copy of a TBX-6  or an TBW transmitter manual but have both on PDF and once you get use to using a computer for manuals it saves a lot of shelf and floor space. And by backing things up in several places if one machine or drive dies so what you can always create another.

Ray F 

-----Original Message-----
From: Milsurplus [mailto:milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Bry Carling AF4K
Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2015 5:03 PM
To: Boatanchors; Military Surplus net List
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] [Boatanchors] [BoatAnchors] An object lesson

Jack I agree. I have archived all of my CDs off to inexpensive external hard drives which take up a LOT less space on the shelves, freeing them up for... amateur radio BOOKS and MAGAZINES!

On 15 Apr 2015 at 13:38, Jack Antonio wrote:

> 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?
> 
> 
> 
> Jack Antonio WA7DIA/4
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ______________________________________________________________
> Milsurplus mailing list
> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/milsurplus
> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm
> Post: mailto:Milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
> 
> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email 
> list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html


______________________________________________________________
Milsurplus mailing list
Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/milsurplus
Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm
Post: mailto:Milsurplus at mailman.qth.net

This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net
Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html