Re: Is ProDOS supported in OSX?

["M. Pender" <mpender@hotmail.com>]

Bill Garber <willy46pa@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> I can see that possibly there is data on those tapes they could need,
> but I would think that with all the new ideas and innovations made
> in the past 10 years, most of that data would be obsolete. Wouldn't
> you agree?

Actually, the opposite is usually true.  Somebody comes up with a new theory
about how A relates to B, etc.  Then they go to the archived data to see if
their new theory accurately predicts what happens.

Think of all the Hubble data taken before it got a new telescope package.
All of that data is 'blurry' and less useful than the data coming in today.
But people invent new image processing algorithms every day.  The data that
is 'useless' today might be invaluable 5 years from now.

- Mike