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The New York Times > Technology > Even Digital Memories Can Fade: "'It is a global problem for the biggest governments and the biggest corporations all the way down to individuals,' said Ken Thibodeau, director for the electronic records archives program at the National Archives and Records Administration.
In the meantime, individual PC owners struggle in private. Desk drawers and den closets are filled with obsolete computers, stacks of Zip disks and 3�-inch diskettes, even the larger 5�-inch floppy disks from the 1980's. Short of a clear solution, experts recommend that people copy their materials, which were once on vinyl, film and paper, to CD's and other backup formats."
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