[Cialug] long term storage

David Champion dave at dchamp.net
Wed Jul 15 13:01:54 CDT 2009


Barry Von Ahsen wrote:
> Colin Burnett wrote:
>   
>> On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 7:48 AM, Josh
>> More<morej at alliancetechnologies.net> wrote:
>>     
>>> We know that, of all storage media, papyrus and stone last the longest.
>>> How long do you need to archive your data?
>>>       
>> What's the lowest chiseling rate you can get (in $/bit) these days?
>> I'm not quite up to the task of chiseling a couple billion bits in
>> stone.
>>     
>
> maybe we can work with the newly-formed robotics group to create a 
> cnc-cuniform clay tablet writer.  then we just need to worry about 
> storage.  anyone got a spare ziggurat?
>
>
> -barry
>   

Your clay tablets could suffer from fragmentation issues, if they're 
dropped during transportation.

-dc



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