[AT] Atis outage - the details

[charlie hill]

What is starting to worry me is the new electronic readers like the Kindle. 
The trend is away from published books in favor of electronic versions. 
That doesn't bode well for the future in my opinion.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Larry Goss
Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 12:58 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Atis outage - the details


You're right, John.  Two of the Federal censuses are already inaccessible 
because of that (1950 and 1960.)  It really surprises me when professional 
archivists give me a blank look when I ask them about media migration for 
digital archiving systems.  Last summer, I talked with an archivist in 
Chicago who had "solved the problem" by simply resolving that she would 
archive nothing that wasn't originally printed on paper!  I was tempted to 
ask her what rock she had been hiding under for the last few decades?

As much as we may dislike having to look at what the Federal government does 
and following their lead, they actually have more practice and experience at 
this than almost any other source.  The Hollerith code for punched computer 
cards was developed for the 1890 Federal census.  Never mind that that 
census is the only one that is COMPLETELY lost to us -- because it burned!

Larry

----- Original Message -----
From: John Slavin <chaunceyjb at sbcglobal.net>
Date: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 11:35
Subject: Re: [AT] Atis outage - the details
To: at at lists.antique-tractor.com

> You know I don't hear it talked about much in the circles I
> frequent
> (although I imagine it's a hot topic in the IT world), but we're
> going
> to be in a real pickle when old systems go down and no one knows
> how
> to fix them.  Or we (as a society) need some information
> off an
> archive that we learn is based on a program that nobody has anymore.
>
> John Slavin
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