Re: OT: Domesday

[Juey Chong Ong]

On Monday, Dec 2, 2002, at 14:20 America/New_York, Bob Walkden wrote:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2534391.stm

In summary, a 1980s version of Domesday has been unreadable for 16 years
because the digital technology they stored it on went out-of-date. The
original is still quite readable after almost 1,000 years.

They should have asked me. My video disc player is still in good condition. :-) I don't have an Acorn, through....

In any case, the video disc of the 80s is an analog medium, so it's not completely accurate for them to say the digital storage technology went out-of-date.

--jc