Re: FileMaker Archaeology

From	Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.databases, comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: FileMaker Archaeology
Date	2015-12-16 13:14 +1300
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Message-ID	<161220151314526540%YourName@YourISP.com> (permalink)
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In article <Co-dneViD5u_8e3LnZ2dnUU7-IOdnZ2d@earthlink.com>, Paul
Magnussen <magiconinc@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Nelson wrote:
> >
<snip>
> >
> > What good is digitizing all your data if the technology to read it 
> > disappears?  I should have used papyrus.
> 
> I couldn't agree more.

There was an article a while back in the UK's MacFormat magazine about
this issue. Their advice was basically to update the file formats
whenever you update the application, and to keep copies in a
non-proprietary format (such as plain text, JPEG, etc.), as well as to
keep printouts and store files on current disk formats / media types
using something fairly standard just as Windoze formatting (which over
the years have been readable in Amiga, Atari ST, Mac, etc. while Amiga
disks are now near-impossible to read without an actual Amiga).

Realistically it's no different to any other industry. Trying to  get a
replacement part for some models of old cars, for example, can be
impossible - you either have to buy second-hand or have them custom
made. One of the few companies that still apparently makes and stocks
parts for virtually all their old models (way back to pre-War models!)
is Citroen.

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FileMaker Archaeology Nelson <nelson@nowhere.com> - 2015-12-14 14:00 -0500
  Re: FileMaker Archaeology Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-12-14 19:23 +0000
    Re: FileMaker Archaeology android <here@there.was> - 2015-12-14 20:42 +0100
    Re: FileMaker Archaeology ErikRS <mac-dane@is.invalid> - 2015-12-14 21:06 +0100
      Re: FileMaker Archaeology dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2015-12-15 11:28 +1300
        Re: FileMaker Archaeology ErikRS <mac-dane@is.invalid> - 2015-12-15 02:19 +0100
          Re: FileMaker Archaeology dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2015-12-15 15:15 +1300
  Re: FileMaker Archaeology JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-12-14 15:02 -0500
  Re: FileMaker Archaeology Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-12-15 00:51 +0000
    Re: FileMaker Archaeology nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-12-14 20:05 -0500
      Re: FileMaker Archaeology Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-12-15 04:23 +0000
        Re: FileMaker Archaeology nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-12-14 23:45 -0500
          Re: FileMaker Archaeology Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-12-15 15:18 +0000
            Re: FileMaker Archaeology nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-12-15 10:59 -0500
              Re: FileMaker Archaeology Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-12-15 18:32 +0000
                Re: FileMaker Archaeology nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-12-15 16:32 -0500
                Re: FileMaker Archaeology dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2015-12-16 11:07 +1300
                Re: FileMaker Archaeology nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-12-15 17:14 -0500
                Re: FileMaker Archaeology Martin Τrautmann <t-usenet@gmx.net> - 2015-12-16 08:09 +0000
                Re: FileMaker Archaeology Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-12-17 13:59 +1300
                Re: FileMaker Archaeology Martin Τrautmann <t-usenet@gmx.net> - 2015-12-17 02:51 +0000
                Re: FileMaker Archaeology Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-12-16 13:30 +0000
                Re: FileMaker Archaeology Alan Baker <alangbaker@telus.net> - 2015-12-15 13:35 -0800
                Re: FileMaker Archaeology Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-12-16 13:05 +1300
        Re: FileMaker Archaeology dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2015-12-15 17:52 +1300
          Re: FileMaker Archaeology dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2015-12-15 18:48 +1300
        Re: FileMaker Archaeology Alan Baker <alangbaker@telus.net> - 2015-12-14 21:49 -0800
  Re: FileMaker Archaeology Nelson <nelson@nowhere.com> - 2015-12-15 13:18 -0500
  Re: FileMaker Archaeology Paul Magnussen <magiconinc@earthlink.net> - 2015-12-15 11:38 -0800
    Re: FileMaker Archaeology Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-12-16 13:14 +1300
      Re: FileMaker Archaeology Andreas Rutishauser <andreas@macandreas.ch> - 2015-12-16 06:20 +0100
        Re: FileMaker Archaeology Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-12-16 19:20 +1300
    Re: FileMaker Archaeology Nelson <nelson@nowhere.com> - 2015-12-16 07:48 -0500

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