preserving / ressurecting old docs?

From: Chuck McManis <cmcmanis_at_mcmanis.com>
Date: Fri Jun 22 13:55:14 2001

At 09:43 AM 6/22/01 -0700, Sellam and Brian Chase wrote:
>On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Brian Chase wrote:
> > I'm against the idea of destroying the original as well, but I think
> > your point about losing the digital copy is pretty silly. It's
> > digital... just make lots of copies and spread them around. I'd say
> > it's a lot more dangerous to only have the original.
>
>Brian, this has been discussed at great length before (perhaps you weren't
>around then). Hard copies of documents have survived thousands of years.
>Digital magnetic media has only been around for at most 25-30 years. We
>don't know what's going to happen to that data 50, 100, 500 years from
>now.


And others have pointed out that DEC handbooks are on truly lousy paper.
Therefore, the _solution_ is to scan them at best possible resolution. Fix
any scanning artifacts, the _print them_ on acid free paper and bind
_that_. Problem solved, the book still exists (now in a good form) and
there is a digital copy as well.

--Chuck
Received on Fri Jun 22 2001 - 13:55:14 BST