Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!mks.com!tslwat!louk
From: louk@tslwat.UUCP (Lou Kates)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
Subject: Re: What medium will be readable in 25 years?
Message-ID: <355@tslwat.UUCP>
Date: 12 May 91 01:54:28 GMT
Organization: Teleride Sage, Ltd., Waterloo, Ontario
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Regarding the  question of  what medium   will be readable in  25
years, you will   (1) need a medium that lasts  that long and (2)
you  will  need a medium for  which peripherals exist in 25 years
that can read it. Paper  will last longer than 25 years and since
paper should still  be  around in any forseeable future as should
OCR readers and scanners, merely print off what you want to  save
and store it in Zip Lock bags from the supermarket.

Lou Kates, Teleride Sage Ltd., louk%tslwat@watmath.waterloo.edu