I started in television news while still a college journalism student about
1960. I saw my first video tape recorder about 1961 or '62, and it was the size
of at least two refrigerators and recorded on 3-inch (best I remember)
reel-to-reel tape. I wonder what's still around to play that stuff and what it
might look like today. I bet, though, that the kinescopes from those dark and
dreary black and white ages still look good as new, assuming proper processing
and storage.
I'll be 66 in less than six months, so I'm not too concerned about how long
what I shoot today will last, just as I couldn't care less about life-time
guarantees. But if I were a young whippersnapper, I might give some though
about what the pictures of my children might look like 50 years from now. Mine
are safely preserved on Kodachrome, Ektachrome, Plus-X, Tri-X, and so forth and
so on, and are still looking about 99.44% good.
Good luck, high-tech kiddies, 'cause you're prolly gonna need it.
Walt
--
"Anything more than 500 yards from
the car just isn't photogenic." --
Edward Weston
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> I'm afraid lots of people are going to discover unreadable archives...
> like tomorrow.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> Jón Ragnarsson wrote:
>
> > Yes, imagine trying to read data from these babies today...
> > Will the 22nd century be the age of darkness, with unreadable archives?
> > J.
> >
> > Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> >
> >> From the Computer Geeks email add this morning for hard drives.
> >>
> >>--------------------------------------------------------------
> >>Happy Birthday Hard Drive!
> >>
> >>In 1956 IBM shipped the first hard drive - it was the size of two
> >>refrigerators, held a whopping 5MB of data, and cost about $340,000 in
> >>today's dollars.
> >>--------------------------------------------------------------
> >>
> >>Food for lots of thought. It would take two of these babies to hold a
> >>single E-1 raw file. :-)
> >>
> >>Chuck Norcutt
>
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