ENSURING THE FUTURE OF OUR PLANTS

Alberto ezeizabotgard@hotmail.com
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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