ENSURING THE FUTURE OF OUR PLANTS
Alberto (Sun, 26 Jan 2014 16:57:46 PST)
I have worked for many years for a multinational company that had swarms of computer experts yet the company policy was to have every document, letter, message, etc., printed. I never asked but sure got the lesson and always keep records on a note book.
From: totototo@telus.net
To: pbs@lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 15:31:43 -0800
Subject: Re: [pbs] ENSURING THE FUTURE OF OUR PLANTS
On 26 Jan 2014, at 11:24, Jane McGary wrote:
...I think it's useful to keep a paper record as well as a database.
Judith Martin, writing as Miss Manners, made that very remark vis a vis
electronic address books. Hard drives can and do fail, and backups can turn
sour too, but paper is almost forever.
When I was working, someone latched onto the meme "paperless office" so we were
filing diskettes instead of paper documents. Today, you have to make special
arrangements to have a diskette drive in a computer, so those diskettes are
effectively unreadable. There's the further problem of file formats changing or
going obsolete, a vice to which MS software seems particularly prone. Just try
reading an old Lotus 1-2-3 Release 5 file today!
So, dear bulbophiles, do print out your irreplaceable data and file it where
you can find it after your house burns down.
--
Rodger Whitlock
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Z. 7-8, cool Mediterranean climate
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