Re: Kodak slide projectors to be discontinued

**F*@aol.com**

I'm concerned about the quality of the projected image and about its 
longevity, once we've all, reluctantly or eagerly, gone digital. The way electronic 
media are constantly and deliberately "obsoleted," I have little confidence that 
images on a hard drive or CD will be retrievable -- at least easily 
retrievable -- in, say, 10 or 15 years. Even assuming the file isn't corrupted, the 
drive doesn't crash and the CD doesn't get scratched, today's hot lick image 
storage machine is tomorrow's 8-track.
A 35 mm slide, properly labeled, sleeved and stored is, by comparison, 
immortal. 
Someone on this list once laid out a timetable of sorts for the lifespan of 
technology, i.e., the time we theoretically have to make the change from one 
format to a newer one. Is that person still out there? And am I the only writer 
here who still has old stories on 5 1/4" floppies, and no machine to read them?
JF
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