Comments on: Operation BitSave

By: boatofcar

boatofcar — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:26:49 +0000

There’s something relaxing about organizing stuff like that, I think. Plus, it gives you the chance to remember some things you might have forgotten about.

By: Tam

Tam — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 12:42:35 +0000

This reminds me of the problem posed by color film. Luckily, all my negs from my heady days of amateur photograper are only about 15 years old, so I have another thirty-five years before I need to panic about converting them to some other form of ephemeral storage. Hopefully by then I’ll be to busy with incipient senility to care.

What’s kind of sad is that our information age has yet to find a digital media storage that would be as archival as writing the zeroes and ones on a sheet of paper with a fountain pen.

By: Herby HÃ¶nigsperger

Herby HÃ¶nigsperger — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:56:47 +0000

The peculiar thing about your realisation with flaky media is the irony that we convert from one format that is obsolete and impractical to another that will become obsolete and impractical, as well as unstable! In your http://www.robohara.com/?p=589 post you announced how you’re converting your audio cassettes to mp3. I’ve finally gone and started to do the exact same thing — see http://hmvh.blogspot.com/2008/04/cassette-projects.html

Worse still is that after trashing those old tapes: where and how to back up the resulting mp3s? CDrs? DVDrs? Hard drive? All of those are prone to failure or wear, and nor do magnetism and age take kindly to the original tapes either.

Dilemma.

Backups of backups, right?

By: Mom

Mom — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:26:59 +0000

Can we say “obsession?” Something only a mother or another obsessed person (or a combination of the two) would understand! Keep up the good work son.