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From: "John Cardinal" <>
Subject: RE: TMG-L: Data Storage for the Future
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 18:47:08 -0500


A few people have suggested that paper and ink are the only way to go. Why
not go both ways? Store your data in one or two electronic forms as well as
paper and ink.

Regarding the loss of support for older media, it's definitely true. But
things change; there is much more concern now for the archival of computer
data then there was 30 years ago. Literally millions more people have data
they want to retain, and that creates a market opportunity. So--put it on
CD-ROM, or zip tapes, or whatever. As new media are introduced, copy it
over.

Someday you will not be here to move the data from medium to medium. But
someone else may be. Your data does not have to last forever, just until the
next interested person makes a copy.

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