The question for archivists, as well, Klas. Looks like we'll just
have to play leap-frog, transfering from medium to (new) medium every
50 years or so. We still have wire recorders hanging around (1899)
and certainly have wax cylinder recorders, 78rpm, and 45rpm playback
units, Stellavox, Uher recorders, and an old Webcor along with the
old Nagra S/Ns ( just had one in my hand a few weeks ago), as well.
My guess is that the old standard CDs (44.1/16bit) will be few in
number but still accessible in some preseravtionist quarters. Problem
is: will the CD media last that long?
Bernie
>Speaking about magntic tapes:
>
>A few years ago I planned to make dummy head stereo recordings of common
>sounds in Sweden, everything from an old type-writer (still used, rarely) =
to
>a Ford 1962 V8 engine. I planned to make recordings of the sounds of
>industries which soon will be gone, etc.
>
>The idea was born when I once fantasized over "suppose I could hear
>recordings of the daily life, made 200 years ago?"
>Why not give future people such options? Hearing recordings, as "true to
>life" as possible, just as "if you were there" in the middle of a 1999
>Stockholm traffic junction! For example.
>
>When I planned this, I made several calls to "sound people" who "ALL" made
>the remark that "perhaps only 50 years from now - nobody can play a CD!"
>
>"All" of them favoured the 1/4 inch magnetic tape, as they said: "Even 500
>years from now, we (people) will be able to understand and manufacture a
>machine which can replay such tapes."
>
>So, folks - for an "everlasting" format, what would you recommend today?
>
>Klas.
>Telinga Microphones, Botarbo,
>S-748 96 Tobo, Sweden.
>Phone & fax int + 295 310 01
>email:
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