Saw this posting on Evans Yares blog (EvanYarescom) and it got me to thinking (again)....
The Ticking Time Bomb
BBC News reports:"The growing problem of accessing old digital file formats is a "ticking
time bomb", the chief executive of the UK National Archives has warned.Natalie Ceeney said society faced the possibility of "losing years of critical
How many of you out there truly think all your stored data is safe? Even if your hard drives don't fail, how long will your tapes and CDs, DVD last? Or even a better question -- will you have any computers that will be able to read the media your data is now stored on?-- in 10 years? how about 20? Floppy drives are just about gone, as are omega zip drives. It won't be long till CDRs are just a memory. It is some thing to think about.
knowledge" because modern PCs could not always open old file formats."
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