“Should You Worry About Data Rot?” — Storing DVDs and Film

Thanks go to Morton Beebe for calling our attention to “Should You Worry About Data Rot,” a New York Times Online column by David Pogue about storing DVDs and film.  It includes an interview with Dag Spicer, who’s the curator of the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley and who says having readable back-ups and the equipment that reads them is “almost like your retirement, it’s something you
have to take responsibility for yourself.  No one is going to do it for
you.”

Morton notes that “Kodachrome and black-and-white negatives/prints will last 100-plus years.”

[photo of Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley by David Pogue]