Disasters and Recovery

From: Doug <doug_at_blinkenlights.com>
Date: Sun Jan 17 21:49:44 1999

On Sun, 17 Jan 1999, Sam Ismail wrote:

> Paper will last longer than anything we've been discussing so far (save

Where did you get that idea? Paper will disolve in just about any
solvent, including water, and is subject to tearing. Again, if we're
talking about preservation in controlled environments, a CD-ROM kicks
paper's butt.

What makes some of today's technology fragile is simply the density, or
equivalenty, the lack of redundancy in a given area. A plain old EPROM
should be fine for 100 years if you include 100 copies of the information
within it.

-- Doug
Received on Sun Jan 17 1999 - 21:49:44 GMT

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.3.0 : Fri Oct 10 2014 - 23:32:06 BST