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--- In logic-ot@y..., Marvin Humphrey <marvin@r...> wrote:
> > I believe properly maintained digital data has the best potential for
> > long-term preservation. Obviously, you've got to clone before the
> > storage medium suffers any degradation,
> 
> And that's the rub.  When you miss the "clone by" date, it all goes to hell.
> And because accelerated aging tests aren't perfect, the clone-by date could
> be closer or farther away that we suspect - who knows?.  You're concerned
> about the financial future of Alesis and the future of ADAT (rightly so; I
> only mentioned the ADAT tape bit as an FYI), but not about the stability of
> whatever institutions/individuals wind up holding digital archives?  

I've been hearing about this for a couple of months on these lists, about Alesis having financial problems. Though I haven't found information about this anywhere. Is this a rumour, or is there a palce on the net where I can read more about this?
Even if Alesis would go down, there would still be some companies willing to take over their technology. Maybe Alesis will end up in the hands of Creative then, :-)(ouch). Just like Emu and Ensoniq did. Would be better if Alesis became property of Yamaha, like Korg is.
So rumour or not?
Regards,
Yoonchi.