Let's develop an open-source media archive standard

----- Original Message ----- From: "Vintage Computer Festival" <vcf(a)siconic.com> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 2:46 PM Subject: Re: Let's develop an open-source media archive standard If it were up to them the spec would be encoded in integer-binary form on a string of beryllium-cobalt-copper links, fed into a giant water-powered mechanical difference engine tabulation computer to reproduce the works on stainless steel discs in any number of base-n numbering systems :) This article from them pretty much sums it up. http://www.longnow.org/10klibrary/library.htm Cool bunch of people. I saw them on Big Thinkers back when TechTV was good. Now it's time to write up my idea for the Long Now clock... Is it me or do many of these look like the time controller machine in Tomb Raider (The Movie)? http://www.longnow.org/10kclock/clockother.htm