16 May
2003
16 May
'03
11:01 a.m.
Dwight K. Elvey wrote:
I'm more interested in getting the information
spread to multiple
locations, regardless of the media. Even paper tape burns up in
a fire. The only real hope is a lot of copies spread around the
world. This is why I've made my efforts for the Poly88 and I'm
doing similar for the H89.
Multiple media and multiple locations is the only hope.
Exactly, as was demonstrated by the fire in Edinburgh last December
which destroyed the AI library.
Even online digital archivesa re not immune, ISTR that a Dutch network
center burned sometime last year. I don't recall hearing that anything
was iretrievably lost though.
-- hbp