Packrat or Archivist? [ was Adventures in GPG ]

[Tom Buskey]

On 3/20/07, Paul Lussier <p.lussier at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> "Tom Buskey" <tom at buskey.name> writes:
>
> > It'll be a sad day when CDs no longer have a device to play in.  I
> > consolidated lots of old floppy media to a few CDs.  I have hundreds of
> CDs
> > now.
>
> Something tells me there's someone out there who has consolidated a bunch
> of:
>
> - paper tape to punch cards
> - punch cards to 9-track tape
> - 9-track tapes to 8" floppies
> - 8" floppies to 5.25" floppies
> - 5.25" floppies to 3.5" floppies
> - 3.5" floppies to a CD
> - CDs to DVD
>
> And they'll probably consolidate all there DVDs someday to something
> else.  Somewhere, someone has ENIAC or UNIVAC source code that's
> passed through all these media :)
>
>
I've gone 5.25 + 3.5 floppies to CD.
DVDs are not as reliable for archiving as CDs.  And CDs can be read by DVD
players so there's little reason to migrate away from them yet.  Of course
4-5 CDs fit on 1 DVD so maybe it's easier to have 2-3 DVD copies in various
locations then CDs.
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