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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 5612738" data-attributes="member: 19675">My experiences tell me otherwise.I lost electronic data from the 1980s in the 1990s due to format changes.  I lost data from the early 1990s in the late 1990s- some of which was because the company in question (Microsoft) decided to change the way they did spreadsheet programs and provided no way to translate from one to the other.  I had to spend thousands for a third party to translate my business files- I couldn't afford to translate my recreational files.I'm fortunate that my data in my Palm Tungsten (purchased in 2005) is downloadable onto an old Mac that can import the data into Office, or I would currently be re-typing 3 RPG campaigns, a couple hundred PCs & NPCs and a Chordbook For New Standard Tuning (Guitar) I'm writing from scratch because the Palm is dying and it won't talk to my newer electronics.  We're talking 330 files, some of which are 5+ pages in length.In parallel, I have audio recorded on formats that are well & truly dead...and the music is currently not available (I've looked).  To access it, I have to maintain the older tech.Meanwhile, I can still curl up with my original AD&D books and Dragon magazines, my novels from the 1960s and so forth.So, no, I'm not as confident in my ability to access electronic data encoded in one form decades down the road.</blockquote>