To: Chapita
Yeah, digital photos can be stored on floppies or cd's but if you had stored digital photos on a 5-1/4" floppy 7 years ago, do you have a 5-1/4" drive to read those floppies today? My point is that paper sits there. If it's good quality photographic paper, it will still be sitting there 100 years from now. If you don't revise your digital media storage to the latest hardware and software standard every time a new standard arises, one of these days, you're not going to be able to see those pictures anymore. The National Archives is having a fit over this very problem.
19 posted on
01/05/2002 11:16:51 PM PST by
agitator
To: agitator
Transferred my Super 8's to video ages ago ('course thats obsolete now, too) but still have the films and projector; still have a turntable that works and still have a computer with a 5-1/4. Still have about about a thousand prints in a box somewhere. Gonna index them someday, too.
To: agitator
I see! Thanks!
26 posted on
01/06/2002 1:15:52 AM PST by
Chapita
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