They could have just buried an Acorn Microcomputer with the disks. It was all solid state (no?), and it's not like it's power requirements couldn't be met. Simon
-----Original Message----- From: Juey Chong Ong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 3 December 2002 3:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: OT: Domesday 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 because the digital technology they stored it on went out-of-date.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of the 80s is an analog medium, so it's not completely accurate for them to say the digital storage technology went out-of-date.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
