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Simon Robert wrote: > Alan wrote: >> Robin Cornelius wrote: >> >>> On 4/2/07, Alan <ap@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>>>> AFAICT, there is no format or archived media that cannot be read today, >>>>> even ones that are already 50 years old. There will always be >>>>> archivists and historians who will seek to use the old formats and that >>>>> can keep the codec alive. As long as one person is interested in the >>>>> format, the source code remains available and it can be updated to >>>>> whatever is around at the time. >>>>> >>>>> >>>> so can you help me get some photos off some 5.25" floppies I have stored >>>> away? >>>> >>>> >>> Do you have a 5.25" drive? i assume not as you are asking. I do have >>> one somewhere here >>> >> I do. But don't have a controller I can plug into a modern computer though. >> >> >> >>>> The format may be OK, but the media may not. And I'm old enough to have >>>> some 8" floppies with interesting stuff on them. >>>> >>>> >>> My BBC micro games still run of the 5.25" disk, as long as you didn't >>> bend them in half they were not that bad. >>> >>> Might have somthing to do with the data density is so low you can >>> almost see the magnetic bits with the naked eye (joking) >>> >>> >>> >> And you're right, jokes aside. And if your eyesight isn't all that good, >> then you could at least feel the bumps. >> >> The point was that you really couldn't expect to be able to have the >> mechanical technology to recover all that old stuff stored away. The >> software, formats, and codecs aren't the issue. You still need a slot to >> plug the stuff into. >> >> Anyone got any classics on Beta they'd like to play some rainy evening? >> >> >> > better get those VHS home movies stored onto your quantum bubble drive > pretty quick, cos VHS will be as dead as beta soon. OK it probably will > be always possible to transfer stuff, but it's difficult and costly. My > mother paid around £35 to have her super8 wedding transferred to video. > I have loads of colour slides I'd like digitised, but high street > photographers charge £20 a box. You can get scanners which take slides- they aren't expensive either. > Now I guess mother will have to fork > out another £35 to go from vhs to *.avi. Buy a video capture card. You can get USB ones really cheap now. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html