Occasional Observations of Traveling Technology Coach

Legacy media refers to all the items that we no longer use, such as videotapes, reel-to-reels, cassette tapes, CD-ROMs, etc. So what do we do when we have movies that we want to preserve? We transfer them to digital form, then throw out the original source. Because we are normal and sane.

Others save the original media in plastic bins — although there are no longer VCRs tape decks, or digital video disk drives — and lock the whole thing up in the attic for future generations to deal with. Which no one ever will. Which it will just collect dust for ever. Which is a form of hoarding.

Such as these items below, which are already online, and yet history DEMANDS that we save the original unreadable media.