22 Jun
2001
22 Jun
'01
6:55 a.m.
At 09:43 AM 6/22/01 -0700, Sellam and Brian Chase wrote:
On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Brian Chase wrote:
And others have pointed out that DEC handbooks are on truly lousy paper.
Therefore, the _solution_ is to scan them at best possible resolution. Fix
any scanning artifacts, the _print them_ on acid free paper and bind
_that_. Problem solved, the book still exists (now in a good form) and
there is a digital copy as well.
--Chuck
I'm against the idea of destroying the
original as well, but I think
your point about losing the digital copy is pretty silly. It's
digital... just make lots of copies and spread them around. I'd say
it's a lot more dangerous to only have the original.
Brian, this has been discussed at great length before (perhaps you weren't
around then). Hard copies of documents have survived thousands of years.
Digital magnetic media has only been around for at most 25-30 years. We
don't know what's going to happen to that data 50, 100, 500 years from
now.