Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:42:17 -0400
From: Ted White <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Give Me That Old Time Technology!
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

  On 8/23/2010 12:42 PM, Tamar Lindsay wrote:

>  --- On Mon, 8/23/10, Madeleine Yeh <myeh at wap.org> wrote:
>
[...]
>
> > I never really thought about different work processing programs,
> > but how do picture and music programs last?
>
>  Music I imagine fails as fast as word programs. Pictures are usually
>  in something fairly common like jpg etc, and there are picture
>  programs that will convert format (some loss as usual).  If you can
>  get it on screen, things like PaintShop or PhotoShop can capture it
>  in whatever modern format you want.

I don't understand what's being asked with "how do picture and music
programs last?" How does anything last? People preserve it. Programs
"last" by being kept on computers.

That said, music is usually saved in a computer as either MP3 or .wav
files, the latter being preferable (no compression, no loss). But it can
be saved in a "hard" medium. .Wav files are saved as CDs, for example.

--Ted White