Let's develop an open-source media archive standard

From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf_at_siconic.com>
Date: Wed Aug 11 13:16:25 2004

On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Jules Richardson wrote:

> On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 14:37, Cini, Richard wrote:
> > Dave:
> >
> > I tend to forget about the Motorola format (call me an Intel snob).
> > The 16mb would be enough for many systems, and I would hope that 4gb would
> > be enough, at least for now, to represent the largest of the media types we
> > want to represent.
>
> I don't know about 4GB, but I'd really like to archive hard disk images
> in the 20-30MB range using the same format if possible...

Again, this doesn't matter in the spec. Data of *any* size will be able
to be represented, whether it's two bits or forty terabytes.

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