Tom Ivar Helbekkmo wrote: > "Malcolm Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I hear so many people complain of computer failures and corrupt > > discs and even upgrading and sometime later finding their new > > computer doesn't support retrieval of older software - but is that > > the reality of computers in 2003? > > Yes, it is. Expect media to deteriorate, expect new software to > refuse to read old data formats, and to fail to run at all under new > versions of operating systems. Think long term: store images using > common industry standards such as JPEG, not proprietary application > formats. Remember that those CDs are going to be physically > unreadable at some time in the future (20 years? 10? 5?), and plan to > copy the images on them to new media periodically.
Thanks, with that in mind, storage is less of an issue. > > > Every upgrade I have made has made the system more stable and > > reliable. > > You're probably using Microsoft systems, right? They sure have > improved the stability and reliability of their software a lot in > recent years, but that doesn't mean a thing as far as long term > storage of data goes. Windows 2020 may run great, but that won't help > if your images are stored on physically deteriorated CDs, and in a > format that can only be read by a software package that was never > upgraded after 2005, and won't run on anything post Windows 2008! Yes, I am at the moment but this may change to a Mac later this year. Regardless of whatever I end up using, your points on storage of data is well made. Thank you. Malcolm
