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From: ale2@psu.edu (ale2)
Subject: Re: Publishing Scholarly Work on the Web -- opinions?
Organization: Penn State University
Date: 24 Sep 1996 18:38:38 GMT
Message-ID: <5299re$18qi@r02n01.cac.psu.edu>

In article <5295oe$qj2@walter.cray.com>
ecale@cray.com (David Ecale) writes:

> Price isn't the question.  It's durability of
> the media.
> 
> 1) The change in technology is such that data stored on media only 10 years
> ago is completely unreadable, well almost!

Shouldn't optical storage of information (cd's ect.) last in principle
for 1000's of years even if the machines which read the information
don't?

