Re: scanning to cd-rom

From: Steve Underwood (steveu@coppice.org)
Date: Mon Jan 22 2001 - 07:03:29 PST

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    Jonathan Buzzard wrote:

    > >From this comes the most important aspect. Expect to migrate *all*
    > your data to a new physical media format about every 10 years. That is
    > long before your CD's start going off so to speak you will find that
    > it is getting harder to find equipment to read them. Therefore you
    > need to monitor the situation and be prepared to act in good time to
    > move the data to new physical media before the old becomes unreadable.

    Would you like to see some of my pile of CDs and CDRs that were fine when new,
    but became unreadable within one year?

    Regards,
    Steve

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