Re: [ARSCLIST] Preservation media WAS: Cataloguing still :-)

[Mike Richter <mrichter@xxxxxxx>]

Richard L. Hess wrote:
> At 10:13 AM 9/2/2006, Mike Csontos Mwcpc6@xxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > To me, the long term archiving by digitization of books is just as
> > questionable as it is for images and audio.
>
>
> Mike,
>
> What would you propose as the alternative?

Another Mike responds in the spirit so often in this group: cuneiform. 
Even more durable than a 'shellac' '78-rpm' disc, the clay tablet with 
impressed text is likely to be preserved until the sun goes nova.

Oh, nuts! Those wedge-shaped marks are binary, aren't they? I guess that 
cuneiform does not qualify.

It's digital!

Mike
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