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Paper remains the most effective long term storage.
by NikkiA 2y ago
Paper remains the most effective long term storage.
- elzbardico 2y agoergo, my suggestion of archiving stuff in punch cards.
- NikkiA 2y ago1 line of 80col text per card is pretty awful though, and then you bring back all the horrors of 60s card sequencing but for bigger files. Some kind of 'barcode' encoding, with heavy error correction, would probably be better. I've seen attempts that claim 500kB per side using a largely unmodified QR code system, but I suspect better could be achieved - the method of scanning is probably going to be the bottleneck anyway.
- master_crab 2y agoDepends on the paper. Stone tablets, on the other hand, are rock solid. (Pun intended)
- larshaendler 2y agoI have been working in long term storage for many years. I never understood why we cant just 3d-print binary code on thin clay tablets and then burn them for long term storage. Clay tablets are readable for thousands of years.
- NikkiA 2y agoStone - and more usefully, clay - last almost forever, but they're impractical for digital storage, since there's no useful way of imprinting on them that isn't very low density, unlike paper. Unless we could improvise something with old-school dot matrix impact heads to print on clay - I wonder if anyone has tried.