Neil Rosenberg said:
> And there's no risk of losing your favorite music
> because of degrading/aging paper.
Err, no, but rolls last 70-80 years (looks like 120-150 here in UK) and
floppy discs no more than 7 for sure, unless you refresh them. I heard
somewhere - urban myth maybe - that someone has measured the magnetic
degradation on different computer diskettes and estimates data is safe
for only:
years
5.25" DD 4
3.5" HD 7
Zip/Jaz 20
It's conditional on how good the reading heads are. I have a laptop that
can't even read freshly-recorded diskettes properly. I have to copy a
file onto disks several times under different names and try each one.
And this is without any wear and tear. Do you have facilities for
re-recording the piano files ? Maybe a CD conversion is the answer.
Dan Wilson
[ We're all concerned with archiving the fragile music rolls and books,
[ so this is an important topic. Is data available on the estimated
[ life of other media, such as video tape and the different types of
[ recordable CDs? -- Robbie
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