Subj : Highly profitable
To   : Moondog
From : Kaelon
Date : Sat Jul 16 2022 06:51 pm

 Re: "Highly profitable" Bay S
 By: Moondog to Kaelon on Sat Jul 16 2022 04:51 pm

> At one site I worked at, a sales guy pulled out some old CD's he burned in
> the early 2000's and wanted files moved over to the network.  the laptops we
> issue no longer had CD or DVD drives.  Anyways, the files he wanted were
> scanned in a proprietary format the scanner software he used in the late
> 1990's.  We got lucky and found in our software repository a program that
> would read the format, but it had to be run on a virtual machine.  By the
> time we recovered the document andpreserved it to a pdf file, he could've
> original documents pulled from the long term storage site.

I guess the phrase you used earlier - "if kept properly" - rings true here.  Everything from file format to readable / extractable software looms large in this digital world.  (Similar note, so many fellow historians tell me what a nightmare we are in terms of primary source documents.  Better to print everything out, they say, than to bank on any of these digital formats making it to the next generational archiving.)
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