Xref: utzoo comp.misc:12441 comp.periphs:3722 rec.music.cd:15857 rec.music.misc:69281 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!dali.cs.montana.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!caen!uwm.edu!lll-winken!iggy.GW.Vitalink.COM!widener!sven From: sven@cs.widener.edu (Sven Heinicke) 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: Date: 7 May 91 20:53:44 GMT References: <8144@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> <1991May1.174841.3321@investor.pgh.pa.us> Organization: Widener CS Dept Lines: 31 Nntp-Posting-Host: ashley.cs.widener.edu To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com Subject: Re: What medium will be readable in 25 years? Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.periphs,rec.music.cd,rec.music.misc In-Reply-To: References: <8144@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> <1991May1.174841.3321@investor.pgh.pa.us> Organization: Widener CS Dept Cc: Bcc: 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. I find that tapestries might be a good solution if you don't need exact binary code. There are still left over from the middle ages. And people are working on decoding dna from millions of years ago using probility to detect mutations in the mitocondra (sp?), I think I saw a PBS program talking about this, whitch I could remeber whitch one. -- sven@cs.widener.edu Widener CS system manager Sven Mike Heinicke and Student (pssmheinicke@cyber.widener.edu (if you must)) -- sven@cs.widener.edu Widener CS system manager Sven Mike Heinicke and Student (pssmheinicke@cyber.widener.edu (if you must))