[ARSCLIST] electronic reading of physical media, was: Preservation policy question

[Lou Judson <inaudio@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is great food for future-thinking - does anyone think it will 
eventually become possible to make an image scan of a disc and have the 
computer read it, in the way a scanner and OCR can turn documents into 
type or ASCII code? And eventually magnetic tape might be read, the way 
we used to use chemicals to make magnetic patterns visible? I would 
think it was easily possible given advanced anough computers and 
software...

After all, I invented (in my imagination only!) memory chip delivery of 
music when I was 14 in the 60s... now look at us... if only I'd had the 
skills to manifest it then!

Fantasy becomes reality someday...

<L>

Lou Judson • Intuitive Audio
415-883-2689

On Dec 9, 2005, at 8:59 AM, Karl Miller wrote:

> To which I would add...while we believe we can get the best from any
> original, I always keep originals simply because I believe there is 
> always
> the possibility that technology will give us better capture in the 
> future.
> I would hate to think of some lacquer discs being tossed after transfer
> considering some of the possible use of the imaging technology for 
> capture
> becoming economically viable in the not too distant future. Perhaps we
> could have, or perhaps there is, some technology to capture, without 
> direct
> contact to a playback head, audio from magnetic tape.
>
> As for what you keep, versus your available space...that is a rough
> question at any time...
>
> Karl