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Originally Posted by yvanleterrible
Data is trapped by hardware.
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Data is only as trapped by hardware as the user wants it to be, or is lazy to let it be.
I have files (i wanted to preserve, even some i didn't) on my current desktop computer dating from about a dozen or more previous incarnations, back from DOS times and 40 MB hard drives. I probably would have transfered some from my Amigas before that, but i never felt the need...
So it's not so much about data being trapped as you being too inert or not feeling inclined to move your data. It won't move, copy nor reencode by itself, you know. (just to clarify, not You personally, it's more of an indeterminate "you"
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Neither will the books. If you move from one house (or a flat) to another and leave a book behind, it's entirely your fault, not the book's, ya know
Both require some occasional upkeeping, attention and preserving, and while paper
media can last longer inbetween, the digital
data requires much less effort.