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- From: briang@atlastele.com (Brian Godfrey)
- Subject: Re: Photo CD
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.180536.3749@atlastele.com>
- Organization: Atlas Telecom Inc.
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 18:05:36 GMT
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- In article <92359.000218I18BC@CUNYVM.BITNET> CUNY/Spartacus <I18BC@CUNYVM.BITNET> writes:
- >In article <PD.92Dec20184108@horus.sics.se>, pd@sics.se (Per Danielsson) says:
- >>Digital (mostly magnetic) media seems to go out of fashion very fast.
- >>Have you tried to read a 7-channel tape lately? A punched tape?
- >>Can we be certain that somebody a hundred years from now can read a
- >>PhotoCD?
- > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >Sorry Per,
- > But you ought to know better than that being a computer person.
- >If its digital, it can be transfered to many different digital mediums.
- >Just like transfering an old text file from a 160k 5 1/4 floppy
- >to a 2.88mb 3 1/2 floppy. Or uploading my floppy file to 3380
- >mainframe diskpack or digital tape. etc etc etc...etc
-
- I agree with Per. Most people - the vast majority of the people in the
- world - are not technophiles. They are not going to update their media
- and reading devices every time a new standard comes out. They just won't
- do it. They've got other things to do. But they will surely want to
- look at their old family photos sixty years from now. Most folks get
- their pictures back and look at them and then toss them in a drawer.
- Some of the more organized might actually put them into an album. Then
- they look at them once every two or three years for a while and then
- forget about them until one day they want to show them to their grandkids.
- I can remember rummaging in my grandparents attic and coming across
- various old memorabilia and photos and dragging Grandma up to tell me
- about them. I would have been disappointed if they were on some media
- which could not be read because it was forty years and ten techno-
- generations old, and Grandma would have been more so. Film does not
- have this problem.
-
- --
- --Brian M. Godfrey
- atlastele.com
-