Cp in bc,
I will check the site tomorrow.  But am reminded of two things:
Everything from my AT&T computer is stuck on floppies, four years.
There are boxes of 1/2 inch b&w reel to reel video tapes that despite
tails-out are most likely all snow from 1968 to 1975, but can't play
them.
Best,
Leland

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Check out this British website for a fabulous introduction to
digitization of images.

tasi  =  "Technical Advisory Services for Images."
http://www.tasi.ac.uk/advice/delivering/digpres.html

""However, the fragility of the media is not as threatening to digital
information as many problems associated with technical obsolescence. In
general, digital storage media will outlive both the hardware and the
software that support it. Technology is advancing so quickly that steps
must be taken to ensure that data-retrieval can continue to be supported
by appropriate platforms well into the future.  It is interesting to
note that media created as recently as the 1980s are already
incompatible with most of today's machines.  The importance of ensuring
that information can be read by future generations cannot be
overstated.""

Great charts included in the articles make it easy to learn the lingo
and how to make choices.

cp in bc

PS:  Just found a Free downloadable and very fast photo manager that
looks pretty good and prints contact sheets. "IrfanView", apparently
created by a techno-kid.

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