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Non-Tech : Any info about Iomega (IOM)?
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To: Gottfried who wrote (48717)2/24/1998 2:38:00 PM
From: Cameron Dorey  Read Replies (2) of 58324
 
Gottfried, the article went into detail about some large data archives which were created during the 50's and more recently (large-scale mapping and climate data comes to mind) and were lost forever because they were stored on magnetic tape. Some of the data we are working with now may not have to be touched after it is gathered, and will be useful in decades to come, but only if it can be stored reliably. Not everything needs to be periodically massaged, and people are being sold a bill of goods when they think that they can archive data "forever" on even the optical storage media.

IMHO, we should print everything out on newsprint and bury it in a landfill somewhere. Nothing gets to the stuff there, except for the "garbagologists."

Cameron

"If at first you do succeed, try not to look astonished."
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