I disagree. I don't foresee any difficulty reading the images. The TIFF or
even JPG format is pretty well defined. I might have to transfer the images
to new media occastionally, but even that is years and years in the future.
Tom
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Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 9:25 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] Time to jump ship? Was What's left - OM stuff FS
> In a message dated 11/11/2003 3:24:01 AM Central Standard Time,
> piers@xxxxxxxx writes:
> I don't have any confidence
> that I could do the same thirty years hence with digital images, because
the
> likelihood of being able to 'read' the data is, I
> Believe, low. Either the media will have degraded, or the hardware to
read
> them will also be long obsolete. Or the data archiving
> and retrieval task will be too much of a chore.
> I think the nail has been hit squarely on the head. Bill Barber
>
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