17 Jan
1999
17 Jan
'99
10:18 a.m.
On Sun, 17 Jan 1999, Tony Duell wrote:
How about we start sending all our precious data into space via radio
waves towards some big celestial body (like one of Jupiter's moons) so
that in X years it will bounce back and we can then retrieve it
(hopefully intact thanks to some keen error correction protocol). Of
course you'd have to send it on such a trajectory that both the
transmission and bounced data stream are not obscured by some other object
(like that pesky moon!)
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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Punched mylar
tape? That should last hundreds of years. Of course, it's
not very representative of how computers are actually used in the last
decade of the 20th century.
Yes, punched tape (or maybe cards) is one of the longest-lived backing
stores.
There are reliable electronic stores. Braided wire ROM is one of them.
But none of them are high-density, or are anything like the typical
memories of 1999.