On Friday, June 28, 2002, at 11:34 AM, HI100@xxxxxxx wrote:
John L.,
wrote about the poor longevity of digital media and formats:
>>
If you wrote something in WordStar Word Perfect ten years ago, how
would you access it now? If you did some financial studies or pro
forma balance sheets in Lotus 1-2-3 to go with it, how would you access
it now? Do you even have a disk drive that can read the disks on which
it was stored (if it was 5.25 inch
mini-floppys, you're sunk).
......
I appreciate what you mean but I think you have missed something. As
media formats change people move what's important to the new format.
There will be an overlap period for the new shiny state of the art media
and current stuff. With already created digital images it is a matter of
transferring and perhaps some translation to the latest thing. I've been
through this several times in my professional life already - it's not a
big deal really. Maybe I'll open a translation shop!
Cheers
Sue Gregson
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