Although one can buy CD ROM disks that will (at least in theory)
last hundreds of years, it strikes me that if one has much of a
library, periodically copying old disks to new formats to preserve
compatibility with future recording formats causes great logistics
problems.
The issue isn't restricted to photos. I need to save everything, basically.
My approach is bulk storage, so that conversion to a new format
takes one operation, not hundreds to thousands of manual operations.
Nor is any thought required, which is good, as I now have 12 GBytes
of files in 103,000 files and folders, some 18 years accumulation.
It may sound like a lot, but it all fits on one or two tapes,
costing ten or twenty dollars.
-snip
Joe Gwinn
Hope you saved your original images. If you did, pick out a good one
and perform a scan of it with a current high quality scanner. Touch
it up a little in PhotoShop if it has faded a little. Print it.
Print your archived file of your 1985 scan. Compare.
--
Winsor Crosby
Long Beach, California
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