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Compare the BBC Domesday Project to the original Domesday Book from 1085. One can be read today, the other not so much. You ask what the folks at BBC were think
by HarryHirsch 8y ago
Compare the BBC Domesday Project to the original Domesday Book from 1085. One can be read today, the other not so much. You ask what the folks at BBC were thinking, did they never consult an archival librarian?
- jacquesm 8y agoI played with that when it first came out. We had the discs and the player, it was very impressive but even then I knew that there was no way that it would last for even a decade. It was a puny bit of data for todays standards (about 500M in total), but of the day it was incredible. Back then a mainframe winchester pack with the same capacity would be roughly the size of a washer-dryer combination. The data not being publicly accessible at the moment is more of a copyright rather than a technical issue.