-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 09/10/06 16:04, J.A. de Vries wrote: [snip] > You'd have to be a fossil just like me to even want to, but the fact > still remains that these floppies are perfectly fine after 20 years. So > are tapes (I know of tapes even older than that which are still in use). > To me tape is still *the* most reliable medium for long term storage > (not the most convenient though!).
There are still plenty of desktop 9-track tape devices that are perfectly happy to read old EBCDIC tapes. DECtape is another matter. You'll have to outsource that, but it's doable. Same with CompacTape I thru IV, but there are still lots of drives in production that can read them. Mechanical breakage and planned hardware obsolescence means, though, that I'd copy off those files sooner rather than later. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFBID9S9HxQb37XmcRAvwkAJwNPh+rGIrsXC8rXevj5IHP4jinUgCaAmNG FsCNnuKynB1rpY9kw7UZVv0= =NlsC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
