Re: One world, different dimensions

On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 22:35:26 -0500, capolk@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 16:47:55 -0400, R. Totale <slangtruth@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I'll grant that you might not be rebuying them on CD. But at least if
you were making CDR backups you'd still be able to find a machine to
play them on in ten years. Hell, I have a machine to play 78s. But
I'd be crying now if I backed up anything of importance to any of the
prior Sony innovations. Anybody got an Elcassette player?

I'm not so concerned about that. As I said, in the US they're pretty
scarce, but they had enough worldwide penetration, I think, to be at
worst, similar to vinyl or cassette (as opposed to say, 8 track) in
terms of becoming obsolete.

Suit yourself, but on the face of it that's ridiculous. You can't pass
a thrift store or yard sale without finding working equipment to play
a record or cassette, because millions of software titles over the
years were released on them and there was a player or two or three of
some soft in every home and many cars. At best, you've got a disk
medium where the players and software were only ever produced by one
manufacturer and where the information is encoded in a proprietary
format on expensive discs which no other manufacturer of players or
software has ever even attempted to support. Rather than compare
finding a player in the future to read these to finding a vinyl or
cassette player you should pick another analogy. They probably won't
be much harder to find a player for than an IBM 8" SSSD floppy disc,
for example. That's actually easier to find than a working Elcassette
player, but dozens of manufacturers made those, and only Sony made the
Elcassette.

And if worse comes to worse, I suppose I can always put them on some
type of hard drive. But that actually worries me more in terms of
safety than MD does.

It escapes me why if you're backing up CDs at all you wouldn't back
them up to the most common and cheapest medium available, which would
of course be blank CDs. You could always copy them to your MD, and
later copy them to something else if you got the notion.

.

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