[clug] Recovering data from old disks. Max age observed?

[Stephen Hocking]

And always be copying your stuff to newer media. It's cheap. Just do eet..

On Fri., 14 Jun. 2019, 21:09 Bryan Kilgallin via linux, <
linux at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> George:
>
> > I wonder if in 4,000 years what records of our time will still exist,
> and how will recorded history at that time will explain the emergence of
> the digital age, early computing systems (particularly our early CPUs) and
> the "personal computer".
>
> Records have survived millennia! Yet a computer is an archival disaster.
> Machines become unfashionable. So their formats are unreadable. Print on
> acid free paper. Take care storing hard copy.
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