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sine@zerocrossing.net wrote: > I totally agree. If something is worth keeping to you (or someone else) >it > will be far better to transfer an intact digital copy to a new medium >than it > would be to take a brittle tape and force it to loose yet another >generation. > The stuff that doesn't make it to the new medium... well you lose it. >Is that > so bad? Do we need everything? More often than not, I trash a loop >after I'm > done playing. If I saved every loop I ever made, I'd have so much it >would be > totally unwieldy, and it would end up like having nothing. > > I forget his name, but I love to quote one of the first developers of the > "Hypertext" concept. He had (has?) a condition where he retained a >perfect > memory about everything and it was slowly driving him insane. He said, >(I > paraphrase) "Remembering everything is curiously similar to forgetting > everything." yep, back up them k-7's i just finished a major transfer and found many fave 20+ year old tapes had DIED. and funny aside to your other paragraph, i've grown up watching my father (who wrote fortran incidentally), with a photographic memory slowly have his brain fill, and now it seems to take him longer to access memories even short term. i remember that he would memorize my mothers med. text books and test her while she was in pre-med. to this day, it is all still in there, down to the page number, but he looks like Data scrolling thru his memory banks.