Re: A couple of places to donate railroad stuff
Author: Margaret (SP fan)
Date: 09-10-2014 - 12:46
Migrate your data to the most popular currently-playable format!
Can anyone be sure that any CD or DVD will be able
to be read in merely 10 years -- let aone 50 or 100?
The physical CD may well be in great shape, but who in
the future will have a machine that will be able to play it?
How many of us still have a machine that can actually run
a 3-1/2-incch floppy disk?
To repeat: ALL data MUST be copied onto the currently-readable
format -- while that old format is still around!
It is a real shame that there is not a really big national repository
top store all these irreplaceable historic photos, etc. One should
\not have to be a Steinheimer to get some of one's valuable historic
photos preserved.