I'm hoping that eventually our technology will have the 'all around converter'. Just pop anything digital into it, CD, DVD, 5.25 floppy... in any format.. and it'll be able to scan the storage device and pull out the information. LOL.. maybe I'm dreaming. ;) Cynthia Richard Tenney wrote:
I recently helped a friend recover (and translate to Word and WP) some ancient Wordstar files from 5.25 inch floppies from his old Kaypro computer; chapters of a book he wrote almost 20 years ago; thankfully he didn't wait too long (I found some shareware on the 'net that did the trick, as well as having kept an old 5.25 drive around at home that I was able to temporarily put in my PC).
Even optical drives don't last long; those CD's you burn today may only last you a dozen years or so, depending on the quality of the medium. I guess what I'm getting at is, if you have digital stuff that you want to preserve well into the future, it's kinda like food storage; you have to bring it up to date every so often, especially before it "expires" completely, or is no longer cost effective to do so.
Rich
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