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The concern about losing (not "loosing", please!) the ability to read old media is a valid one. If somebody were to give you a reel of computer tape from the 1960s, how many people here would have the equipment to be able to read it? This is a very real issue; a huge amount of data from the Apollo era of NASA has been lost because the tapes were poorly stored and have deteriorated beyond the point of recovery, never having been transferred to more durable storage formats.
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