[Cialug] long term storage

[Jeff Chapin]

Colin Burnett wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Thomas Kula<kula at tproa.net> wrote:
>   
>> Actually, I think that your book example suffers exactly the same
>> problems that digital data suffers from today, it's just that books
>> have had much longer to become a mature technology.
>>     
>
> Absolutely.  There's the maintenance of the storage container and
> there's the container itself.  Ignoring the maintenance there's no
> real archiving of data.
>
>   
>> I mean, you have to look up now to discover
>> that "stuck a feather in his hat and called it macaroni" means
>> "I think a feather in my hat looks stylish" not "I think a feather
>> in my hat is now some sort of pasta"
>>     
>
> In fairness, you're talking here of interpretation vs. reading.
> Analogous to getting an executable off the disc and being able to
> execute it.
>
>
>   
I see it as closer to bitzheimers[1] .

[1] indeed, and awesome term.

> Colin
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