Quote:
Originally Posted by duncanlowe
Quote:
Originally Posted by Vicboduk
" I can open a 200 year old book as easily as one published last week, which is of course not the case with digital files."
Vic
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To be fair, that's no quite true... |
It's perfectly true of a number of 200, and even a few 300, year old books here, but, yes, the quality of materials used and the storage conditions have to be right for deterioration to be that slow. Early days yet with digital recordings, I doubt many of us will live long enough for playing a CD or reading an MP3 file to become difficult to arrange, but in both those cases the usual storage media are less than wholly dependable to last a few decades even when stored on a shelf in a dry and temperature-controlled environment.
Paul