Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Best car I've driven (A.K.A. Old man rambling on Tuesday)

[Rick Lindsay (rolindsay]

And that is exactly why I have my car restoration photos saved at an off-site 
ISP.  I have copies on HDD and on CD-ROM but if I have a fire, those copies are 
possibly lost.  I guess the CD-ROMs should be in the bank vault.

rick


--- On Wed, 12/3/08, Hans E. Hansen <FList [at] hanshansen.org> wrote:

> From: Hans E. Hansen <FList [at] hanshansen.org>
> Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Best car I've driven (A.K.A. Old man rambling on 
> Tuesday)
> To: "rolindsay" <rolindsay [at] yahoo.com>
> Cc: "The FerrariList" <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
> Date: Wednesday, December 3, 2008, 2:36 PM
> I've heard of many "oops" moments in modern
> family photography where
> important events were saved from camera to computer hard
> drive.  Computer
> crashes, images lost.  Many people do not do adequate
> backups of their
> digital photos.  My recent trip to Italy resides on the
> hard drives of 4
> computers plus several CDs.  And I'm still paranoid of
> losing them.  I
> guess I could go for archiving online, but the images are
> many gigabytes.
> 
> Hans.
> 
> On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Rick Lindsay
> <rolindsay [at] yahoo.com> wrote:
> > A corollary to this thought is photography.  We can
> still view ancient tin-type photographs today - but will we
> be able to read CD-ROMs in 100 years?  Yes, the CD may still
> be viable but will there be hardware to read it?  Almost
> certainly not.  There are lots of proprietary-format NASA
> video tapes documenting Mercury, Gemini and Apollo but there
> is only ONE remaining, operable player for that media!  And
> that was 50 years ago.  Or witness magnetic audio tape;
> reel-to-reel, 4-track (yes, FOUR track, preceding 8-track),
> 8-track, cassette and music CDs.  Already solid-state memory
> and iPOD-like devices are making even the
> 100-year-shelf-life CD obsolete.  I predict that our
> personal photographic history will become the stuff of
> legends.
> >
> > regards,
> >
> > rick
> >
> >> From: Michael James
> >
> >> Most of your modern Automotive advances have been
> >> Electronic, not entirely mechanical - which, I
> predict, will
> >> all have a very-poor shelf-life.  Imagine trying
> to repair
> >> and source-parts for Ferrari's F1 paddleshift
> >> transmissions two decades from now - forget it. 
> Most
> >> electronic-assist machines will be inoperable in
> 20-30 years
> >> simply because automotive electronics do not age
> well, are
> >> disposable/proprietary in the eyes of OEM
> suppliers, and
> >> difficult if not outright impossible for
> shade-tree
> >> mechanics to reverse-engineer without a Masters in
> Computer
> >> Engineering.  Coupled with the dwindling talent
> pool if
> >> REAL automotive mechanics, and most of the newer
> cars will
> >> be forever parked when their ECUs and other
> electronic
> >> engine-management doo-dads fail.
> >>
> >> M
> >
> >
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