Message-Id: <199610151521.KAA01211@library.wustl.edu> Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 11:14:11 -0400 From: "Robert A. Baron" <mailto:rabaron@PIPELINE.COM> Subject: Re: image storage (spelling!) To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB
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>Zip storage apparently, has already been superceded by Jaz drives which
>accomodates 1gb storage disks.
>Hope YOU'RE better. We didn't think the Conference was that much of a
knock-out! >We all missed you.
At $120 per Jaz cartridge, Zip media has a lot of life left in it. However, neither, to my mind is appropriate for archival storage unless there is a dependable data transfer and rejeuvenation program in place. Don't expect these magnetic flexable media to last more than 5 years. The 8" Iomega 20 meg disks I bought from 1986 through 1992 are sometimes no longer readable.
Robert A. Baron Museum Computer Consultant P.O. Box 93, Larchmont, NY 10538 mailto:rabaron@pipeline.com