On Jan 5, 2009, at 10:31 AM, Dan wrote: > Magnetic media is actually less fragile than burned media. heh. > I've got tapes and floppies that were written in the 80s, that still > read just fine. > > Tapes/etc store data as magnetic patterns that don't degrade / fade > much.
I think tapes are awesome and almost recommended that but I'm worried about losing them to future standards, and to cats. Cats and little kids love pulling tape out of things... I dunno- just worried about the tape itself- la cinta- so that's why I went with a recommendation for solid state drives or wireless flash drives. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
