How safe is your archive...

BBC World Service Radio have a weekly program about tech, it's called digital planet (and before that On Digital), and covers both the world of tech and, more interestingly, the impact of tech on people and their day to day lives. As you might expect from a World Service programme, it's very good at covering stuff outside the major western economies. Anyway, here's the link, it's recommended.

Last weeks podcast had an interesting aside. The programme was celebrating an anniversary and played a clip from the first On Digital broadcast, except they played a tape...

...the CD-R they had that archived the original wouldn't play, so they had to use the tape backup.

The archive was only 5 years old. How confident are you in your archive?

 

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