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Re: CD Longevity



Before we can migrate our data, we have to get the funds to pay for doing
that!  I'm not sure many businesses or institutions are fully committed to
spending whatever amount of money it takes to migrate data again and again.
This is very expensive, and no one even knows how much it will cost the next
time it needs to be done.  It's a large, unpredictable expenditure lurking
out there waiting to derail budgets and projections.

Jan Hart, CA, CRM
Senior Archivist
Irving Archives, Irving Public Library
P. O. Box 152288
Irving, Texas 75015-2288
Telephone:  972-721-3729
Fax: 972-721-8056
E-mail:  jhart@irvinglibrary.org
www.irvinglibrary.org


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Margaret  Monroe [SMTP:Margaret_H_Monroe@DOT.CA.GOV]
> Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 10:13 AM
> To:   ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
> Subject:      Re: CD Longevity
>
> I wonder why anyone would be concerned about archival CD-ROMs.  Technology
> changes so fast that no one can guarantee that in only 10 years you will
> be
> able to easily find a working machine that will be able to play
> present-day
> CDs.  Example: anyone on this list have a computer than can handle 5"
> floppies?   And I read that there are only two machines in the world that
> can read the punched tape that the 1960 US Census data is stored on.
>
> We all must migrate our data onto the current storage system.
>
>
> Margaret Monroe
>
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