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He feels paper lasts longer than any media (the example he gave was of his record, cassette and CD collections, most of which are unplayable now because of wear
by webmobdev 4y ago
He feels paper lasts longer than any media (the example he gave was of his record, cassette and CD collections, most of which are unplayable now because of wear and tear or damage :). He wants a digital copy (on paper) as a backup to the physical copies too. I didn't argue or discuss alternate solutions with him because the requirement piqued my curiosity too. I do remember coming across an open source project which was a QR/bar code like tech that could store 2000 or 3000 KB of data. I just can't seem to find it anymore online because I don't recall its name.
- somerandomqaguy 4y agoHmmm. And am I correct assuming the reason he'd want to store the data in a QR-like format is so that it can be directly used by a program like Excel? That's the only advantage I can see for using a format over one that can be read by humans directly.
- mch82 4y agoThis site has info about QR capacity: https://www.qrcode.com/en/about/version.html https://www.qrcode.com/en/about/version.html Edit: this is probably the best answer though… https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32461230 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32461230 or the microfiche suggestion… https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32462466 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32462466