"Rev. Sidney Flack" <sgflack@prodigy.net> writes: > But digital is not impermeable to decay either. I think we have had > this discussion here. Not all disks are equal but all of them loose > their information over time even is just sitting in their cases on an > air conditioned shelf. I had a disk of photocollage I put together for > my daughter a few years ago. Just months after I burned and had printed > the files into a book for her, the disk was unreadable. It would > have been better if I'd had sent it to a service bureau to output it to > film. Or put it on your web page. There would be copies in caches all around the world. Which is more likely to be lost: the Mona Lisa, or Beethoven's 9th symphony? Brian Chandler ---------------- geo://Sano.Japan.Planet_3 Jigsaw puzzles from Japan at: http://imaginatorium.org/shop/
