Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!samsung!uunet!stanford.edu!msi.umn.edu!widener!sven From: sven@cs.widener.edu (Sven Heinicke) Newsgroups: alt.cuneiform,comp.misc Subject: Re: What medium will be readable in 25 years? Message-ID: <62J+86D@cs.widener.edu> Date: 9 May 91 15:34:57 GMT References: Organization: Widener CS Dept Lines: 15 Nntp-Posting-Host: ashley.cs.widener.edu In , mjd@saul.cis.upenn.edu writes: > > Now admittedly cuneiform is a low-density medium, but our >technology's improved a little, and we could probably get quite a few >bits on a slab of clay, or better yet, macro-defect-free cement. > I think you have something going here, wall paintings on some of the cathadrels (sp?) last for hundrads of years and they are only fixxing them up now, kinda of like restoring a old archive that you only want because you miss it. macro-defece-free cement, has this been done? -- sven@cs.widener.edu Widener CS system manager Sven Mike Heinicke and Student (pssmheinicke@cyber.widener.edu (if you must))