17-11-2013, 02:47 PM
Certainly for the sets which have had Bulletin write-ups it would be easy to put a label inside giving details of the issue.
I agree that modern storage formats will become obsolete far quicker than god old paper. If we were talking about this twenty years ago we'd be on about floppy disks and reading those is getting ever more difficult, especially 5¼" ones. Besides the media there's a very good chance that the data format will difficult to read in the future. All the old 'Standard' programs that I initially learnt about - WordStar, SuperCalc, dBase &c - are no consigned to the history books and who's to say that Word, PDF and JPG won't go the same way.
- Joe
I agree that modern storage formats will become obsolete far quicker than god old paper. If we were talking about this twenty years ago we'd be on about floppy disks and reading those is getting ever more difficult, especially 5¼" ones. Besides the media there's a very good chance that the data format will difficult to read in the future. All the old 'Standard' programs that I initially learnt about - WordStar, SuperCalc, dBase &c - are no consigned to the history books and who's to say that Word, PDF and JPG won't go the same way.
- Joe
