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Article #1205Re: What medium will be readable in 25 years?
From: Lou Kates
Date: Sun, 12 May 1991 01:54
Date: Sun, 12 May 1991 01:54
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Regarding the question of what medium will be readable in 25 years, you will (1) need a medium that lasts that long and (2) you will need a medium for which peripherals exist in 25 years that can read it. Paper will last longer than 25 years and since paper should still be around in any forseeable future as should OCR readers and scanners, merely print off what you want to save and store it in Zip Lock bags from the supermarket. Lou Kates, Teleride Sage Ltd., louk%tslwat@watmath.waterloo.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!mks.com!tslwat!louk From: louk@tslwat.UUCP (Lou Kates) Newsgroups: comp.periphs Subject: Re: What medium will be readable in 25 years? Message-ID: <355@tslwat.UUCP> Date: 12 May 91 01:54:28 GMT Organization: Teleride Sage, Ltd., Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 9