OT: Alien Media (was Disasters and Recovery)

From: Philip.Belben_at_pgen.com <(Philip.Belben_at_pgen.com)>
Date: Tue Jan 19 10:15:45 1999

> IC memory is a problem. Will they know what logic levels and supply
> voltages to apply. Will data books survive? Very few of them are anything
> like archival quality...
>
> It's things like that (+5V logic supply rails, TTL thresholds) that
> we'll probably forget to include, but which might be _very_ important.

Depending on how long we expect to elapse before the archaeologists get
around to digging it up, I would tend to include copies of suitable
reference books with whatever else is in the capsule. To take it to
extremes, things like the definition of a volt may be needed...

Philip.
Received on Tue Jan 19 1999 - 10:15:45 GMT