Archive for

the future!

How do you intend to store your archives?

  
     

Thank You to company like "Photobook" - we have affordable books

This topic of data storage for the future came to light at the time when I bought of DVD set from Taiwan some time back. Was charged well over Rgt100 instead of the usual Rgt 20+. Upon opening the package, I found that there were identical set of 2 Disc. One in DVD 5 and another DVD 9 What for? Slowly I understood that the set was to cater for the future. Got me thinking! Experiences told me about the commercial DVD players available in the market, all had limited capabilities. . With the changing standards and trend, Disc and players are slowly becoming incompatible. The host of formats for encoding into DVD are getting unreasonably large.  Back to my own story. I am a hoarder with loads of cassette tapes, VCD tapes, 8mm Video Tapes, picture films in negative and positive slides Now with the digital format another group of storage medium - hard disc thumb drives and external hard disc. So if I need to keep my archives and to be retrievable in the distant future, which storage should I use? My decision is to narrow down the key materials close to my heart and then have this small amount of materials save in hard copy. The most primitive and oldest format

1. With my wife, Peggy I Thrive

40 pages - An experiment to make my own book
   
  2. My working career and my hobbies

80 pages - Recalling my life experiences, hobbies after retirement and "friends" that passed my way

 
   
3. Waterfalls of Malaysia

80 pages - The final list of 84 Waterfalls that I visited all all peninsular states
   

4. "The Journey"

80 pages - Etching in the one time experiences of being in acting and promoting the 2 movies. Made dedicated copies for Frankie and Williams

 
   

5. My First "Bird" Book

40 pages - So many Photographic Books and Bird Guide in the market! How should  my book by structured? Another first try.

 

 
   

6. Birds of Peninsula Malaysia

148 pages - Finally my own book. Birds and birding in Malaysia

 
   
7. 50Years & Year by Year Recollections

136 pages - Recalling my life experiences, hobbies after retirement and "friends" that passed my way

 
   

8. Family holiday in Kangaroo's Valley

80 pages - Recalling my life experiences, hobbies after retirement and "friends" that passed my way

 
   

9. Our 50th Wedding Anniversary Day

80 pages - Everyone was in. Historical get-together to mark the happier era in our lives.
   

10. Birds and Birding in Fraser's Hills

80 pages - All about Fraser's Hill. Life, history and events in this "happening" resort area. Birds pictures too.
   
11. My Cars

124 pages - Putting on records scenes of my relations with the cars I have driven, used and owned

       

This topic of data storage for the future came to light at the time when I bought of DVD set from Taiwan some time back. Was charged well over Rgt100 instead of the usual Rgt 20+. Upon opening the package, I found that there were identical set of 2 Disc. One in DVD 5 and another DVD 9 What for? Slowly I understood that the set was to cater for the future. Got me thinking! Experiences told me about the commercial DVD players available in the market, all had limited capabilities. . With the changing standards and trend, Disc and players are slowly becoming incompatible. The host of formats for encoding into DVD are getting unreasonably large.  Back to my own story. I am a hoarder with loads of cassette tapes, VCD tapes, 8mm Video Tapes, picture films in negative and positive slides Now with the digital format another group of storage medium - hard disc thumb drives and external hard disc. So if I need to keep my archives and to be retrievable in the distant future, which storage should I use? My decision is to narrow down the key materials close to my heart and then have this small amount of materials save in hard copy. The most primitive and oldest format

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