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As part of my church's 100th year celebration, we opened up the
cornerstone of the church and now are preparing to replace the time
capsule that was left for us by the original builders with a time
capsule of our own.  Rather than leaving a lot of paper documents which
would decay fairly quickly, it was suggested that we leave some form of
computer media.  The rectors first thought was to leave a couple of
floppy disks but I pointed out the fact that the magnetic information on
the disk would probably decay sooner than a paper document would.  It
then occurred to me that writable optical disks and CD roms have a much
longer life expectancy.

So, does anyone in the Rhode Island or southeast Mass area have the
facilities for creating a writable optical disk or a CDrom and would be
willing to donate the use of those facilities for the purpose of
creating a disk to be placed in a time capsule for my church?  If you
would also be willing to donate the cost of the media that would be
fantastic but the church is able to pay for the media if need be.  In
addition to being able to take a tax credit for a charitable donation
you could probably get some nice publicity from this.

We realize that there is a possibility that the disk will not be readable
when it is retrieved in the future, both due to disk failure and to the
fact that the disk format will likely be ancient, but we are willing to
take that risk.
-- 
David H. Brierley
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