Russell, thanks for the reply. My additional points: 1. You do not believe in technical progress (scanning SELECT hardcopy-parts would take seconds). 2. You seem to think of 'storing' everything. Not every page is worth 'forever'. Think "errors" - "Obsolescence". 3. Whatever you 'backup' today may get out-of-technique some time and lost again. 4. (to point 1): audio - (based?) storing may apply some newer AI with topical comparison and REPLY - so that would contribute to #2 as well. 5-1000 think about alll the rest what we do not even think of today
John Mikes On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 4:09 PM, Russell Standish <[email protected]>wrote: > On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 03:45:43PM -0500, John Mikes wrote: > > Russell wrote Jan 26: > > > > .*.We must make sure we have backups this time!*. > > > > How about on paper? E.g. hard copies, like in a millennia-old * L I B R > A R > > Y ? * > > *John Mikes* > > > > > > That's funny - I used to use paper backup copies in my early years of > computing (think Z80 processor running CP/M with floppy disks), and > even, on occasion, having to restore from them. I once loaded an APL > interpreter from printed source code, which took a couple of weeks - > particular to get it working! > > Restoring my laptop from a paper backup would now take several > centuries, or require a sizable army of typists, even using OCR... not > so useful. > > The only backup/archive that works is "spinning disk" - a backup that > is copied to the current used media at all times. I'm in the process > now of transferring my CD/DVDRom collection to spinning disk - only > just in time I suspect. > > Cheers > > -- > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) > Principal, High Performance Coders > Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] > University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
