Punched paper tape... hmmm. I used a program back in the early 70's that
required all the data be entered manually on punch cards. Remember those?
That was the height of "geek" then.
I wasn't a computer geek then, am not a computer geek now, and never will be
a computer geek. And the archival issues of digital images, looking ahead,
with all the churning of technology, just seem to be to be a major pain in
the a......
We have old b&w photos of great grandparents, great aunts & uncles, both
sides of the family. From them to the newest grandchildren in the family
spans six generations. That's a long time for today's CDs to be
manufactured, let alone stored -- dust, heat, and electromagnetic
influence-free. The old prints in an album seem so much more robust,
idiot-proof, and troublefree.
Rich
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