It bears mentioning that the dead sea scrolls were written on sheep hide.
>
> 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
>
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Jim Strickland
jim_at_DIESPAMMERSCUMcalico.litterbox.com
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