Originally posted by TomK Many, many years ago Modern Photography had a short blurb from one of their writers that advised Damitol.
The updated formulation is called Fokitol. I use it constanty.
Originally posted by Ratmagiclady I can't get my writings from 1990, (I was once considered a promising fiction-writer, before that whole homelessness thing) ... even if I hadn['t finally lost the box it was written on, not so sure about my Win98 machine, ...all the zip disks are cooked, anyway, as well as the CDs.... getting there... Negatives, and even newspapers, can last a few lifetimes, even in an attic wall.
I started putting writings (for humans and computers) on 91k single-sided single-hard-sector 5.25" floppies (the kind with lotsa little holes around the center); then migrated those texts and sources (over time) to higher-capacity floppies, both 5.25" and 12"; then 3.5" stiffies, and Zip discs (but no Jaz), and CDs and a few DVDs, both W/O and R/W; and I still have all those (except the 12-inchers and the hard-sectors), and drives for them, although I'll admit to not hooking up a 5.25" floppy drive since around 1999. Actually I have just ONE MORE 5" floppy that needs migration. Sure, one of these days, if I ever fire-up the AdLib Composer again...
Now all those reside in an archive section that occupies some minuscule corner of a hard disc. Will I ever need to access them in my lifetime? Ha. I've done without them so far; a little longer (like a couple more generations) won't hurt.