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Or am I better off buying a good DVD player?
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Recommendations, advice etc would be welcome.
LC
Conclusion
It is all very well improving storage devices as technology moves on, but staying with one digital format can prove problems. It is a lesson that the dramatic hi-tech equipment we use today will be tomorrow’s junk. It’s something 81-year old Sid Islam has learnt to his cost. 15 years a go he wrote his autobiography on a 1980’s computer. Trouble is now he cannot access them with the hopelessly outdated floppy disks as his new computer cannot read them.
When the market was first established in 1970, the 8-inch floppy disk was seen as a method of choice for storing digital data. There is still millions of the 8-inch floppy disk in the world, but to get the information off it – you need a computer who can read it. Fast forward to today, and we have the compact disc, it is hard to imagine that it will be as obsolete as the 8-inch floppy disk. But that day can be coming sooner then we thought.
Unless you can find a system that can read old formats of digital data, it will become lost forever. A specialist service that has a collection of practically prehistoric working computers from the 1980’s allows them to take all the digital data from old formats, and bring it back to life in new digital hardware. We cannot rely on just one digital format and put them away in a neat pile so you can read them in the future. Technology moves fast, and to keep data from being lost, you have to keep copying it to new storage devices.
It’s a problem that is only going to get worse and one that is getting harder for businesses. For a cemetery, it is crucial that there are detail lists of information of people who are buried. Some of those lists are found on 1960’s index sized punch cards and it has taken time and money to transfer the data from an obsolete format onto modern computers. The challenge is to find a way to store this information that is readable, not just now but for years to come.
After millions of dollars spent on research, the advice that is given from the boffins, geeks and nerds is that we must constantly keep transferring all our data if we want to view it in years to come. That is it, until someone somewhere comes up with a better solution.
MYOB said:Thats COMPLETELY unrelated.
And looks like you nicked it from the Readers Digest.
1066Seagull said:Its based on DATA STORAGE.
And I based my research from Google searches and the BBC. One TV video that was very useful which Im trying to find.
disgruntled h blocker said:Is this KS3 coursework?
1066Seagull said:I done a whole essasy on this.
Thats my conclusion!
1066Seagull said:I edited my post for a debate.
*If you can understand my grammer![]()