On May 31, 17:27, Mark Gregory wrote:
> From: Pete Turnbull <pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com>
> >Can I encode mine on knotted string? My mother has a box with an
*awful*
> >lot of string. Should I use the thicker string for DD disk archives?
> If you want increase your data storage capacity, you could colour code
the
> string, too.
>
> Everything old is new again ... we've just re-invented the Inca quipu, a
> few centuries on.
I know. Aside from jibes at those who so vehemently insist that there
should be one particular form of archive, I'm not sure anyone really knows
how to read quipus, though.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
Received on Thu Jun 01 2000 - 02:37:23 BST