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<STRONG>From:</STRONG> Steve Underwood (<A HREF="mailto:steveu@coppice.org?Subject=Re:%20offtopic/%20document%20storage%20(was%20Re:%20Which%20scanners%20REALLY%20provide%2036%20%20bit%20output?%20HP?)&In-Reply-To=&lt;3A38BF9E.D9791E34@coppice.org&gt;"><EM>steveu@coppice.org</EM></A>)<BR>
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Nick Lamb wrote:
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<P><EM>&gt; On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 09:58:07AM +0800, Steve Underwood wrote:
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<EM>&gt; &gt; If you want to do archival storage of documents, do it on paper.
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<EM>&gt; Ha ha ha. I'm sure that's true if your #1 concern is &quot;these documents
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<EM>&gt; must still exist at some defined point in the future&quot;, which is a
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<EM>&gt; common legal requirement. For me though, you can't beat actually being
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<EM>&gt; able to _access_ the archived documents... for that reason our document
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<EM>&gt; images are on big fast magnetic disks :)
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<P>The subject was scanning for archival storage of flakey documents. The
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point is, this is going the wrong way. The flakiest things are the digital
<BR>
media. Five years from now your disks probably won't be here. 10 years from
<BR>
now they certainly won't. If you keep regularly copying to new disks you
<BR>
still have a high probability of calamatous failure along the way, loosing
<BR>
large chunks of data.
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<P>Scanners are great for getting working copies of images onto your big fast,
<BR>
but oh so flaky, hard disks. That's all.
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<P>Only a small portion of archival requirements are for legal reasons. Think
<BR>
how thin your school history books would have been, if everything were
<BR>
stored on modern digital media since the time of the Egyptians....... Hey
<BR>
wait a minute, I like the idea of that!
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<P>Regards,
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Steve
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