Greg, Kelp! Scary but possible - we will become our data. Then it automatically gets backed up by our progeny. Ontogeny recapitulates... etc.. AZ Build a Lookaround! The Lookaround Book, 4th ed. Now an E-book. http://www.panoramacamera.us > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: RE: off-site storage > From: Gregory Fraser <Gregory.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Tue, January 31, 2006 9:52 am > To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students > <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > >As I see it, and I may be missing something essential, in order to store image files > >you would have an enormous amount of paper to print, sort and somehow safeguard. > >Doesn't sound at all practical to me but I may be in error. > >Don > > It gives you another media. Hard drives go bad and lose data as do CDs and DVDs. Paper lasts a long, long time if stored properly. And in the future when people laugh at you for having stored your images on optical media and teenagers have never even heard of a DVD because they're used to the new bio-media where data is stored in kelp DNA, and you've got no way of reading those disks, you still have the paper copy. And at that time (just before the apocalypse) when scanners of any kind have been banned because they may infringe upon an individual's rights, you can manually decode your image data and enter into the computer using a DOS based hex editor you get from Karl's grandson. > > Greg
