Re: obscure arcane knowledge

Again, my sister does a lot of digital backing up. Her plan features an
upgrade to new media every few years and a considerable time period of
format overlap. They'll back up to CDs and DVDs once she's comfortable with
a DVD format and media.

Unfortunately, that's about the only method that you can maintain copies.

One of the things _I_ worry about is the long-term support of file formats.
Once TIFF, PSD, and PDD go by the wayside and it's replaced by
God-knows-what, what will we do with all of our carefully archived backups?!

-Jon

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Barker" <dbarker_ca@yahoo.com>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@skyway.usask.ca>
Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 3:33 PM
Subject: Re: obscure arcane knowledge

> on the other hand how long do we expect the CD format
> to last? Anybody have a 20 yo 5 1/2" floppy at hand?
>
> David Barker
>
> --- Gregory W Blank <gblank@bellatlantic.net> wrote:
> > Eat through them. Its either alchol based or some
> > other solvent based
> > probably not the best to apply to CD surfaces.
> >
> >
> > on 3/26/04 3:04 PM, Barry Kleider at
> > bkleider@sihope.com wrote:
> >
> > > OK kids. Here's a brain teaser:
> > >
> > > We all know that acid in paper and chlorine in PVC
> > will damage pictures.
> > >
> > > How about the ink in a Sharpie (tm)? Anyone know
> > how will the ink in a
> > > permanent marker affect CD-R discs?
> >
>
>
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Received on Fri Mar 26 16:32:03 2004