[cctalk] Re: long lived media (Was: Damage to CD-R from CD Sleeve

[Paul Koning via cctalk]

> On Jan 17, 2023, at 1:32 PM, Sellam Abraham via cctalk 
> <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 8:57 AM Chris via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org>
> wrote:
> 
>> The bottom line is you have to dispense with the fantasy that any media
>> will reliably keep data for really any length of time.
> 
> 
> I don't know, man.  Those stone walls with carvings in them have carried
> data forward so far for centuries, practically aeons.

And the Rosetta Disk is a new construct along the same lines.  However, neither 
is a computer storage device.  Creating something that can be used as a 
computer storage device and still be good a century ago is a harder problem 
than designing a storage device that can be accessed by human eyeballs.

        paul