Hi Chris,

Do ya have a 100MB ZIP drive? 8" floppy? LS-120 Superfloppy? Commodore
Datassette? :)

I think Dan's point was that the problem with electronic information
archival and retrieval is not so much a media problem as it is a reader
problem, and especially a software problem. I do a presentation on digital
preservation pretty regularly and I always ask the audience if they have
stuff on: DVD, CD, 3.5", ZIP, 5.25", 8", WORM, and finally the Commodore
VIC-21/64/128 Datasette media. Then I ask how many of them have readers, and
finally how many of them have working readers AND a machine to attach them
to (for the really old stuff). A lot of eyes get really big in the room.

Doesn't matter if the CDs are perfect if there's no way to read them.

My .02 on a gorgeous Colorado Monday,

Jesse Wilkins
IMERGE Consulting
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>From: Chris Flynn <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: Records Management Program <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Microfilm Alternatives
>Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 08:41:47 -0700
>
>As Dan mentioned in his first post, who has a 5-1/4"
>or even a 3-1/2" drive anymore?
>I do
>
>Who has a 4x CD drive?
>
>I do
>
>
>What's your point?
>
>Chris Flynn
>
>P.S. Who woke Larry up?
>
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