Technology Preservation, Emulation, and Migration
In technology preservation, both hardware and software related to digital information are preserved. This may not be cost effective because changes to hardware and different versions of software need to be either maintained or constantly upgraded.
In emulation, some emulator software programs will mimic the hardware and software of the original data and display in the original format.
In migration, digital information is converted to a standard media with standard format.
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