Rickresource Rickenbacker Forum

I have just barfed my breakfast. Similar to countless mothers who threw their kids baseball cards out.

>>There's just too many variables that get in the way of ensuring they're safely kept in a viable format that remains readable over any period of time (e.g., migration, hardware issues, software issues, hardware failure, easy mutability/loss, etc.)<<

On the other side of the coin you have fires, floods, mildew, wear and tear and energetic cleaning crews. I was not suggesting that slides, prints, negs and the like should be tossed after scanning, merely that they should be scanned in case they are tossed, lost, or destroyed.

I'm sure not just Beatles fans but preservation professionals would rather be contemplating I.T. migration issues than whether they can retrieve a print from the bottom of a landfill.

And that's not to mention restoration that can be done to faded, torn, etc. images, digitally, with minimal threat to the source image.

Or the fact that thousands of photos taken by ordinary fans are now being shared with people who live continents away thanks to troublesome I.T. infrastructure.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

...just think a few primal screams are in order here...

EEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUGH! NO! NO!! NO!!!!

Okay, thanks.

I know what you mean, Richard. My grandmother threw out - into the garbage - an old box of dusty 78s she found. It was my uncles complete, original collection of Elvis' releases on Sun.

ouch.

In my case, it was comic books that my mom cleaned out - the original premieres of Spiderman (Strange Tales? # whatever), Thor (Journey Into Mystery # whatever), etc ...