Windows 2000 2 GB file limit

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 10:05:14AM -0500, GCC Consulting wrote:
> As an aside, the NY Time had an article on the front page about
> something I have been railing about for a long time. How to archive
> all of this digital information people have been accumulating. It
> seems that the Library of Congress has a couple of committees trying
> to come up with some sort of standard so that in 10 years, 20 years,
> etc, there will be devices that will be able to read this stored
> information.
>
> As the pointed out, a faded picture or ink document can be read; a
> degraded writable CD or a scratched cd can be unreadable and useless.

Indeed.

The accepted industry archival standard for broadcast TV progrgams?

Three-strip color separated black and white 35mm movie film, running at
29.97fps.  With numerically specified color standards for the filters.

Archival length?  At least 100 years.  And we still know how to deal
with it about 75 years after the format was invented.

Cheers,
-- jra
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