Xref: utzoo comp.misc:12464 comp.periphs:3731 rec.music.cd:15881 rec.music.misc:69365 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!caen!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!csn!datran2!smb From: smb@data.com (Steven M. Boker) Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.periphs,rec.music.cd,rec.music.misc Subject: Re: What medium will be readable in 25 years? Keywords: computer music Message-ID: <1991May8.163138.5157@data.com> Date: 8 May 91 16:31:38 GMT References: <1991May1.174841.3321@investor.pgh.pa.us> Organization: Data Transforms, Inc. Lines: 25 In article sven@cs.widener.edu (Sven Heinicke) writes: >In article you write: >>In article <1991May1.174841.3321@investor.pgh.pa.us> rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305) writes: >>> CD Rom and optical discs are a possibility, as above. >> >>Read/write opticals are probably no better than magnetic... you want a non- >>erasable medium. > Back in 1985 I sat on a panel at COMDEX with a fellow from the Smithsonian Museum. They asked themselves the very same question. They have masses of documents that are rapidly deteriorating and were looking to preserve them for future generations. The solution that they came up with is a hardened, etched glass master that can be used to press CD-ROM's. They are committed to preserving the technology to read these CD-ROM's for the next hundred years or so. (Or until the budget runs out :-} ) Steve -- #====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====# # Steve Boker # "Two's bifurcation # # smb@data.com # but three's chaotic" # #====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#