My Toshiba Satellite A135 crashed to the point that the hard drive needs to be removed and replaced or serviced. Proabably all data on it will be lost, including my digital photo albums. Should I have made backups of my backups of my backups? What format THIS time, anyway??

My negatives and slides are STILL JUST FINE, thanks. I don't have to keep upgrading my foreign slave labor made equipment every three years, either. The Kodak Ektagraphic III AMT projector keeps working just great, just like it did when I bought it used in 1994.

I've seen it here before, and it's still true: If you want to fish with dynamite, that's your choice. I'll still shoot film knowing that skill, talent and patience trumps shotgun FPS everytime. The rich detail of a properly processed sheet of film will last for more than a hundred years, properly stored. Try using your Apple IIE or Commodore 640 right now. Let me know how that works out for you!