#CDROM for Library
26-Jan-93 08:06:08
Sb: #38008-#CDROM for Library
Fm: Jim Clements 72300,3432
To: JAN SCHWENK 70053,1702
{Yes, I agree about the "original" quality of CD-ROM/digital information,
Jan. The discussion I was talking about apparently concerned very
high-level archivists — Library of Congress, etc. Apparently they wanted
something that would last at least 100 years (talking about gold vs. silver
CD-ROM, glass vs. plastic and such) and the question came up about the
reader technology.
Seemed to me, as it apparently does to you, that it would be simple enough
to keep transfering it to whatever new technology comes along to replace
what is available. For some reason that never came up in the conversation.
Cheers, Jan!