Will your digital info. be available in the future?

[MikeW]

OMFG!!! It's the end of the world!!!! All it will take is one massive EM pulse and everything will be GONE!!!!!!

FOREVER!!!!!!

[East]

...and vinyl is making a comeback!

We can learn a lot from that

[MikeW]

Plato, via Socrates, told a story of how the god Thoth brought writing to humankind… and the Pharaoh wasn't too happy about it, insisting it would cause us to "loose our memory" (edit: As I recall, the exact phrase was, "cause forgetfulness in the learner's soul"). By which he meant the ability for us to REMEMBER all that we had heard/learned (in an aural culture).

He wasn't wrong.

Yet, here we are, for better and worse.

[meridannight]

I should also clarify that when I am talking about floppies, I am talking about the 5 inch floppies....and I haven't had that tech available to me for about 20 years or so.

this one?

http://www.ebay.com/bhp/5-1-4-floppy-drive

no idea what connectors that thing has or how to get it to interface with a modern computer, but i imagine there are guys who could probably help with that.