While our history is important it has become expensive baggage. I think ideally we need to transform into something Doug's server can handle.
We could spare a few decades of snide political comment. To survive we need to streamline, modernize, downsize and outsource. We need to change our overall data footprint before it drives us to extinction.
We need to change.
Perhaps into something we'd be proud to invite our friends to...even friends we sometimes disagree with.
Discuss...?
Can we please just archive the historic stuff instead of deleting it?
Believe it or not I happen to have about 140 TB of extra storage, in the form of a bunch of bookshelves chock full of idled hard drives representing most of my
work over a forty year period.
I'm SURE I could dig up at least 8 terabytes to spare.
Yes, not joking, I digitized something like 2500 analog videotapes and used as little compression as possible, burned out THREE used Sony U-matic VTR's
in the process. Used to be you could get a decent used one for under fifty bucks, now they are going back up in price again because
the old professional analog video decks are becoming rare...so if I ever want to do more, I'll have to drag a broken machine in for repairs instead.
How many terabytes IS the entire CHB-RR post database?
I can't imagine it being much more than 4 terabytes, am I wrong?
