Message-Id: <mailto:199505051042.FAA04579@library.wustl.edu> Date: Fri, 5 May 1995 06:34:01 EDT From: Owen <mailto:Somerset@INTERRAMP.COM> Subject: Re: Microfilm To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB
>One more voice in the microfilm/data for 500 years. Bits and bytes 50 years
>from now? ever try to find an 8" floppy drive? Lose the right bit or two, and
>the whole file is unreadable - a bit of microfilm "measles" and you still
>can read the image. I think 50 years from now we'll still be converting
>information from microfilm for access; still filming for _preservation_
>
>Bob Henneberger INTERNET:mailto:bhennebe@uga.cc.uga.edu
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Microfile vs Electronic imaging: This is beginning to sound like
MAC vs PC, Ford vs Chevy, etc etc. Lets just do it the way it fits best for each of us, and in 500 years we can see who was right.
Owen.
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