[Cialug] long term storage

[Thomas Kula]

On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 01:01:54PM -0500, David Champion wrote:
> 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.
> 

Just set the no-fragment bit. Problem solved, right?

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