[time-nuts] OT: Wanted desperately - LS-120 disk drive

[Brooke Clarke]

Hi Justin:

I was just reading about Digital Cinema in relation to learning more 
about Home Threater,
http://www.prc68.com/I/HomeTheater.shtml
There are now thousands of movie theaters (most are the small multi 
screen type) that use digital projection instead of 35 mm film.  There 
are many benefits such as huge savings related to the cost of a 35mm 
film vs. a 350 GB hard drive but also the ability to release a new film 
in theaters without spending 150 million on the first round of prints.  
BUT, the key problem is archival quality (100 year) copy of the film 
which is easy to do in 35 mm and extremely difficult to do with digital 
media.

PS the company referenced in my prior email does more than just hard 
drives, i.e. floppy, tape, digital camera media, etc.

Have Fun,

Brooke Clarke
http://www.PRC68.com


Justin Pinnix wrote:
> David,
>
> You probably know this already, but you can walk into any electronics store
> and buy a 16GB USB thumb drive for 20 dollars that will hold the equivalent
> of 136 LS-120 floppies.  You might be better served by moving your
> collection to a more modern media.
>
> Remember that magnetic media (disks, tapes) have a limited shelf life.  In
> particular, I've had a lot of problem with floppies written with one drive
> not being readable on another.
>
> Thanks,
> -JP
> On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 8:42 AM, David C. Partridge<
> david.partridge at dsl.pipex.com>  wrote:
>
>    
>> Internal 3.5" LS-120 Superdisk floppy drive (ideally with black front, but
>> ...).   I'm after one in the standard 3.5" floppy drive size, not laptop.
>>
>> The one in my main system just died :-(.  I have a lot of stuff on LS-120
>> disks, and while I can read them on a system in another room and network
>> the
>> files it is rather a PITA (plus it is probably only a matter of time until
>> that one dies too).
>>
>> I will remove the dead one and look for any obvious problems, but I'm not
>> optimistic.
>>
>> I am in the UK not the USA by the way.
>>
>> Please respond off-list.
>>
>> Dave
>>
>>
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