11 Oct
2005
11 Oct
'05
3:07 p.m.
der Mouse wrote:
Paper may actually not be totally out of the question.
With decent
printing technology you can get about 75dpi with fairly clear
readability
Umm give me the record instead -- @1200 baud :)
What ever happed to the cheap write once media , something like paper
tape or magnetic
stipe cards with I think laser holes similar to a CD. I saw it in BYTE
once but I never heard
about them again. Note Digital Paper looks like a intersting storage
medum too,
Does anyone know if there are optical formats that
can reliably
deliver 10 year shelf-life?
Ummm...do pressed CDs count? (As opposed to CD-Rs and CD-RWs.) Not
many collections of data are worth doing a one-off pressed CD, but it
may not be out of the question for some data.
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