From: Wayne Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >It just might. Please note that this uses an analog storage medium with >human readable data as the key to making it work. >Kodak does have the experience from the film world to understand what it >takes.
Our thinking was that no digital media was likely to last longer then about 10 years, if that long. I have read of difficulty in reading 10 year old magnetic tape using mothballed equipment stored under optimal conditions. The tapes were frequently unreadable with serious forensic technology which of course adds to the time and expense of data recovery. >The other caveat with all this new technology is that it really must be >available from more than one vendor, I think. Movie film had many >sources all along the production chain. AFAIK, the Kodak technology is evolutionary rather then revolutionary in that it uses components from their other product lines. Most imaging companies do not have the breadth of experience and product that Kodak has but they could build or bundle an acceptable solution. I saw some technology years ago that created special extremely high-density barcodes to store information on normal paper with special scanners to read it. Building a database index and rolls of paper printed with bar codes would also work as a hybrid digital index/analog storage medium. Todd Smith
