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[ILUG] Storing for Historical Record? (OT)

[ILUG] Storing for Historical Record? (OT)

Breathnach, Proinnsias (Dublin) breatpro at exchange.ie.ml.com
Tue Oct 1 15:51:03 IST 2002


ink-n-paper.sys ?

cdrom is a good choice, widely readable (for now .. ) remember though that
technology advances, and the documents may no longer be readable in ten /
twenty years time, since the media will be obselete ... 

Can anyone recover data from a Tandy TRS-80 cassette-tape now ?

That said, paper doesn't like humidity too much unless you laminate ...
multiple formats, considering how little there is to store, CD / DVD / Paper
/ Other should all be possible, and perhaps warranted ?

P

> -----Original Message-----
>     The archive is <100MB, I can guarantee darkness and coolness but not
> low
> humidity, and the result has to survive decades.  Lots of decades.
> 
> Anybody got any better ideas, or links to discussions of this?
> 
> Ronan.
> 




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