[MRCA] [Milsurplus] Lunar Photos

[Peter Gottlieb]

I'd like to see gigabytes of stone storage ;-)

You could always store it in the cloud, good luck there. 

I still have some pretty old CDs which seem to read fine. They have a pretty robust ECC so I suppose they will work fine until the day the ECC can't keep up and then that's the end of that!


Peter

> On Apr 25, 2014, at 6:49 PM, Gene Smar <ersmar at verizon.net> wrote:
> 
> 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. 
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>  
> 73 de
> Gene Smar  AD3F
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>  
> On 04/25/14, J. Forster<jfor at quikus.com> 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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