[Klug-general] Any help....

[Michael E. Rentell]

...and as we have seen with another of our colleagues today, the method 
of reading said record. When will CD readers go extinct?

MikeR

On 27/08/10 11:29, Karl Buckland wrote:
> On 27 August 2010 11:26, Mike Evans<mike at tandem.f9.co.uk>  wrote:
>>
>> The British Library currently has on display works in early English
>> published about 600 years ago.  The medium was paper and a coloured deposit
>> generally based on carbon (lamp-black) or ground minerals.  They last very
>> well provided light is limited - which is the norm in closed books.  They
>> tried transferring it to microfilm starting in 1938 - but have found that
>> medium somewhat less reliable than the original.  Some lessons of history,
>> it would seem, have yet to be learned.
>>
>
> Maybe the lesson is just 'Keep things as simple as possible'.
> Techically storing things digitally should help, but of course you
> need to always keep the storage medium up to date!
>
> Karl
>
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