A few thoughts about logging via a computer's electronic sources....
My first computer was a Suunto, and I got the electronic logging feature that used the computer's serial port. People old enough to remember what a serial port was will get a good laugh at that. That obviously ceased to be an option after a short while.
It is like a lot of other technical stuff in my life. I have a lot of vinyl records--but no record player. I have lots of old VHS tapes of my young family at play, but no functioning VHS player. I am told that if I want to pay some big bucks, I can get someone to transfer both the vinyl and the VHS to a more modern format--hopefully before that format goes out of existence.
If I had started my diving millenia ago with a papyrus logbook, with proper preservation techniques I could still read them.
My first computer was a Suunto, and I got the electronic logging feature that used the computer's serial port. People old enough to remember what a serial port was will get a good laugh at that. That obviously ceased to be an option after a short while.
It is like a lot of other technical stuff in my life. I have a lot of vinyl records--but no record player. I have lots of old VHS tapes of my young family at play, but no functioning VHS player. I am told that if I want to pay some big bucks, I can get someone to transfer both the vinyl and the VHS to a more modern format--hopefully before that format goes out of existence.
If I had started my diving millenia ago with a papyrus logbook, with proper preservation techniques I could still read them.