[Year 12 IT Apps] Paper Wins!

[Litsa Tzelepis]

You are very very funny.
It's all true.
(:-)

On Friday, May 2, 2014, Mark <mark at vceit.com> wrote:

>
> On 2 May 2014 14:43, ken price <kenjprice at gmail.com<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','kenjprice at gmail.com');>
> > wrote:
>
>> Though some may argue that reading books that are a few centuries old is
>> not a simple process either.
>>
>
> True, and I agree completely, but that is a linguistic problem, rather
> than a media issue.
> Linguistic drift can take centuries - we can read "Pride and Prejudice"
> perfectly well.
> But it can take a millennium for a bloke like Chaucer to become
> unintelligible.
>
> A *digital* dark age, however, can occur within mere years.
>
> Imagine finding an 8" floppy disc labelled "Me, Lee, Marilyn and the Mob -
> a memoir by J.F.Kennedy" and trying to read it.
> Or a 5.25" disc - but it's saved in Wordstar format?
> Or it was created on an Apple ][, or under a CP/M operating system.
>
> How many of you could even read it if it were given to you today on a 3.5"
> floppy?
> What if it were saved on a PATA hard disk? Try finding a PATA port on a
> modern motherboard.
>
> One of the most-borrowed devices I loaned out at McKinnon SC was a USB
> 3.5" floppy drive. (You can still get them for less than $20 on eBay. I'd
> grab one for your school while you can. Advertise it. Staff will love you.)
> But try looking for a *5.25"* USB floppy drive ... start here -
> http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/1006497 (spoiler: the news is not
> good)
>
> I'm getting to the stage where I'm even converting Word .doc files to
> plain text or RTF for archiving because even Microsoft may soon/eventually
> go the way of Wordstar and Wordperfect (the once-undisputed *king* of
> word processing)...
> And if you save to the cloud - who will say your Google/Amazon/Microsoft
> host won't collapse, or cancel your account and delete all of your files
> tomorrow for no explicable reason?
>
> When I archive now, I copy both  to NAS, hard disk, and DVD/Blu-ray,
> because any optical disk has a finite lifespan.
> And magnetic disks need to be refreshed every few years to maintain their
> data integrity.
>
> Yet my hand-written paper-based diaries from 1985 continue to freely
> embarrass me to this day with no technological barrier.
> Curse them, and those old days on the dairy farm when I had a paper diary,
> a pen, and a lively, buxom, nubile* milk maid.
>
> Curse them all!
>
> Well, actually the milk maid *was* rather cute. Dammit! Why did I leave
> her?
> Why can't I rewind this stupid life?
> Deanne! Where are you now?
> (Sobs. Recovers. Stoically faces future without buxom milk maid.)
>
> I bet even you - readrs in 2024 in the Kevork Preservatin Socit,y - are
> findin that my pst is beomig hrd t read as th yars av pasd an dsk erro hap
> mr oftn.
>
> ---
>
> Mark Kelly
> mark AT vceit DOT com
> http://vceit.com
>
> *Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease - Bill Maher *
>
> * Don't be rude. "Nubile" does not mean "nude", "flexible" or other
> naughty things. It means "Eligible to marry." So - nyaaa.
>


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