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On 11/08/2008 09:05 PM, John Abreau wrote: > I remember back in the '80s somebody marketed a backup solution for > the early Macintosh that was essentially a barcode reader. The backup > software would print the data in a high-density format that the barcode= > reader could scan back in to restore. > > It wouldn't be practical for terabytes of data, but the shelf life of p= aper > certainly beats that of magnetic media and DVDs. I wonder how practical= > a similar approach with microfilm would be -- how dense the storage > could be made, what sort of shelf life it would have, and what the cost= > per gigabyte would be. > > And for seriously long-term archiving, nothing so far has beaten the re= cord > of cuneiform carved into stone tablets. :-) > =20 I don't know exactly what they do now, but many businesses used to=20 archive the microfiche. The shelf life is decades or longer, and it is=20 easier to store than the stone tablets. --=20 Jerry Feldman <gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846
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