Just to store my archive would take in excess of 3000gb, Dominique.
That takes a fair amount of disk space. We are still waiting for a
single outboard unit on which to store that amount of data.
Bernie
>Hi Klas,
>
>Probably a binary file stored on one or several computers !
>No magnetic device seems to be the answer, except if you are able to
>transfer the data without any loss (I doubt if that is possible ?) onto
>a new tape every few years (5 years ? 10 years ?).
>The advantage of computer stored files is that you may even consider
>transferring them to new media when these become available. Today : a
>CD-ROM; tomorrow, a DVD; what in 20 years from now ?
>
>DL
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Klas Strandberg
>Sent: 25 July 2003 11:39
>To:
>Subject: [Nature Recordists] Everlasting recordings?
>
>
>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
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