17 Jan
1999
17 Jan
'99
1:49 p.m.
On Sun, 17 Jan 1999, Sam Ismail wrote:
Paper will last longer than anything we've been
discussing so far (save
Where did you get that idea? Paper will disolve in just about any
solvent, including water, and is subject to tearing. Again, if we're
talking about preservation in controlled environments, a CD-ROM kicks
paper's butt.
What makes some of today's technology fragile is simply the density, or
equivalenty, the lack of redundancy in a given area. A plain old EPROM
should be fine for 100 years if you include 100 copies of the information
within it.
-- Doug