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From: djb@koobera.math.uic.edu (D. J. Bernstein)
Subject: Re: Publishing Scholarly Work on the Web -- opinions?
Organization: IR
Date: 24 Sep 1996 18:45:03 GMT
Message-ID: <1996Sep2418.45.03.25687@koobera.math.uic.edu>

In article <5295oe$qj2@walter.cray.com>, David Ecale <ecale@cray.com> wrote:
> 1) The change in technology is such that data stored on media only 10 years
> ago is completely unreadable, well almost!

Who cares? Keep data online, all the time. Replicate data from older
media to newer media. What we want to keep are the bits, not the disks.

---Dan

