I'd vote against. The MO disks and drive in my NeXT no longer work. (of course if anyone has advice for resuscitating MO devices, I'm all ears.) - Milo On Apr 24, 2008, at 1:15 PM, ckeck at texoma.net wrote: > What about magneto-optical disks? They are supposed to last 50 years. > Problem is that one would have to not only hold on to the disks, but > also > the drives, as well as a system with a SCSI I/F. > > -Cornelius > > On Thu, 24 Apr 2008, Tim Newsham wrote: > >> Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 07:30:58 -1000 (HST) >> From: Tim Newsham >> To: Michael Kerpan >> Cc: tuhs at tuhs.org >> Subject: Re: [TUHS] Whence 1st Edition Unix Kernel Assembly? >> >>> I guess we need to start archiving all software on acid-free >>> archival >>> paper, then. It's the only way it'll survive. >> >> And not necessarily in human readable form -- how about some format >> that is very easy to ocr with minimal errors and error correcting >> codes? >> >> ps: how many pages to archive a gigabyte of src code? ;-) >> >> Tim Newsham >> http://www.thenewsh.com/~newsham/ >> _______________________________________________ >> TUHS mailing list >> TUHS at minnie.tuhs.org >> https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs >> > > -- > Cornelius Keck -----------------------------------------> ckeck at texoma.net > _______________________________________________ > TUHS mailing list > TUHS at minnie.tuhs.org > https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs -- Milo Velimirović, Unix Computer Network Administrator 608-785-6618 Office - 608-386-2817 Cell University of Wisconsin - La Crosse La Crosse, Wisconsin 54601 USA 43 48 48 N 91 13 53 W -- Unix: Where /etc/init is job #1.