Re: Archiving very old paper diagrams, drawings and text

From: Ted Edwards <Ted_Espamless@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 17:05:09 GMT

Ian Stirling wrote:

I've got 3 CDs with all my early floppies on them.
And a DVD with all 3 CDs on (actually 2, one in a safe place if the house
burns down).
With the rise of storage media capacity, keeping stuff older than the last
generation tends to be almost free.

Indeed. My daughter frequently sends me a scanned page of calculus for my comments and/or solution when her answers disagree with the text. These 4bit/pixel PNGs run from ~50KB to ~200KB. At 100KB/page a DVD holds close on 5,000 pages and that will quickly quadruple when double sided, double layer price drops.

Ted
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