NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #20/NN_1992_20.iso/spool/comp/sys/amiga/audio/3402

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From: [e-mail] (jerry cullingford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: Re: digitizing 30 minutes voice
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Date: 14 Sep 92 13:17:58 GMT
References: <[e-mail]>
Organization: Crosfield Electronics, Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom.
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Brett Wuth) writes:
>Hi, I have several cassette tapes of interviews with family relatives
>before they died.  Because I want these recordings to be available for
>the generations to come, I would like to avoid degradation in quality
>by digitizing them.  I would like to get your recommendations on how
>to do this.

If you want them to be available for a _long_ time, you'd probably be better
off recording them onto something like recordable CD (Decks cost around 3000
pounds, and you might be able to hire one, blank CDs around 14 pounds), instead
of any computer format.

It's a pretty safe bet that the CD format will be around for longer than most
PC sound formats. And a CD is more accessible, and higher quality too - and
harder to erase by accident :-)

(Think of the PCs people were using ten years ago - how would you read
data stored by it now? - Compare that with a record from twenty, or even
forty years ago.. )

I'm not sure what the life of the recordable CD's is, but it's probably longer
than a syquest cartridge or hard disk, although both being digital, you can
always make a copy without loss of quality (as long as you do so _before_ the
original dies :-) )
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