On Sun, 17 Jan 1999, Tony Duell wrote:
> > Punched mylar tape? That should last hundreds of years. Of course, it's
> > not very representative of how computers are actually used in the last
> > decade of the 20th century.
>
> Yes, punched tape (or maybe cards) is one of the longest-lived backing
> stores.
>
> There are reliable electronic stores. Braided wire ROM is one of them.
> But none of them are high-density, or are anything like the typical
> memories of 1999.
How about we start sending all our precious data into space via radio
waves towards some big celestial body (like one of Jupiter's moons) so
that in X years it will bounce back and we can then retrieve it
(hopefully intact thanks to some keen error correction protocol). Of
course you'd have to send it on such a trajectory that both the
transmission and bounced data stream are not obscured by some other object
(like that pesky moon!)
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar_at_siconic.com
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