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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: 26 Sep 1996 22:55:43 GMT
Message-ID: <1996Sep2622.55.43.8386@koobera.math.uic.edu>

In article <52bbir$fse@walter.cray.com>, David Ecale <ecale@cray.com> wrote:
> I mentioned that I had an 8"-SS-Floppy ca. 1984.  I can
> no longer read this disk.  Not because of the fact that the data has
> perished, but because the machines that read it have!

It's still possible, though rather expensive. You should have moved the
data to newer disks much sooner.

> Well!  Have you considered the continuing cost of this method?

Yes. It's not negligible, but it's also not too big, and it works.

---Dan

