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"bitmaps produced by PaperBack are also human-readable (with the small help of any decent microscope). I'm joking" Actually, tiny human-readable text is incred
by mmahemoff 14y ago
"bitmaps produced by PaperBack are also human-readable (with the small help of any decent microscope). I'm joking"
Actually, tiny human-readable text is incredibly useful for verifying the data was backed up correctly (at least for text-based files). I read about this paper backup technique a while ago, and that was touted as one of the main benefits.
- stephengillie 14y agoSounds like microfiche
- mmahemoff 14y agoTrue, the one I read about was paper based though, from a regular printer I believe.
- gmaslov 14y agoReminds me of a proposal I read about once for a time capsule -- the kind intended to survive the fall of civilization and to help reboot it. It would be plain human-readable text and diagrams engraved into a hard disc of some stable material, starting out big and legible at the edges and gradually getting smaller and smaller as it spirals towards the center, until it's microscopic. The text would start out as a Rosetta Stone type of thing, to try to establish a common language. Then as it got smaller, it would describe how to grind a hand lens so you can read further. Then even smaller text describes how to build a microscope. Maybe somewhat further on it talks about CD-ROM drives, and eventually transitions to /that/ format...
- dandelany 14y agoYou're probably thinking of the Rosetta Project: http://rosettaproject.org/disk/concept/ http://rosettaproject.org/disk/concept/ ...I always thought it was a very cool idea too.