plato is a computer scientist and has been with the museum for almost a decade he's an expert on all salit data carriers. i hope we can speed this up otherwise we'll have to restart the system now we should be able to reject it. the museum has a vast collection of computer hardened software from different periods in time which means writer can usually find whatever obscure device he needs to retrieve data from old storage media nothing is happening no wait now it is. long is still best film roles for example will still have the photos on them unless they have been improperly stored that video uses magnetic tape which the great slowly and the electronic storage media we use now won't even last 50 years through the go over there are a. day to gary's can store less but they're often more durable magnetic storage media like floppy disks last only 20 to 30 years optical storage media like cd roms are highly susceptible to scratching in temperature fluctuations and although hard drives and u.s.b. sticks can store large amounts of data they often d. great within just a few short years studies sho