-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 12/05/06 21:43, Mike McCarty wrote: > Douglas Tutty wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 07:55:40PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: >>> Douglas Tutty wrote: >>>> On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 06:57:38PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > [snip] [snip] > If in X years you plug the drive into your machine, and smoke > pours out, you are going to have difficulty reading any medium > you may put into it. You are banking on the format of the tape > or whatever not changing in that time. If the format becomes > obsolete, and your drive fails, then you are SOL.
Sadly, this is a perfect argument for why businesses go with "popular" instead of "best": you can still buy 9-track tape drives that read IBM and DEC formatted tapes, as well as 3480/3490 tapes and DEC TK50 tapes. There are a few companies that can even still read DECtapes. It's the esoteric stuff (3rd-tier and specialized equipment) that's impossible to read now. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFdlgrS9HxQb37XmcRAnr1AKDckEcDRbVAq7IVFRZlztDpgqkeugCfQ3sc tytX60C3sU2k+TfwPt3kgd4= =r6NR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
