Zflyer Posted October 28, 2023 Share Posted October 28, 2023 Digital storage is fine, but it can decay and come the day when energy to power equipment isnt there or heaven forbid authority takes and limits control paper will still be about. I appreciate photos can fade, particularly from digital printing. Old style photos fade too i know. But keptin albums pages closed not so readily. We have books and manuscripts going back thousands of years.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoff S Posted October 29, 2023 Share Posted October 29, 2023 14 hours ago, Zflyer said: Digital storage is fine, but it can decay and come the day when energy to power equipment isnt there or heaven forbid authority takes and limits control paper will still be about. I appreciate photos can fade, particularly from digital printing. Old style photos fade too i know. But keptin albums pages closed not so readily. We have books and manuscripts going back thousands of years.... Quite true. For digital storage I've used in the past (mostly for software) lots of media, much of which would be unreadable now ie C90 cassettes, 7" floppy discs, 51/4" floppies, 3.5" floppies, various SD types and HD. It's a rapidly changing environment. Tony Benn recorded his diary daily and experienced the same problem with sound recording over the many years he did it. I've got 100s of 35mm colour slides and no projector. I used to develop and print my own photos (I proposed to my wife in my darkroom - I blame the red light 🙂 ) so I have a few albums of photos I took in my teens and twenties but I don't bother much now.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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