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Old 19-11-2021, 02:29 PM
Hans Tucker (Hans)
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Beyond Print Media

Do you ever think print media will become an obsolete method for recording information. When you look at other methods of storage Magnetic Reel to Reel, Floppy Disc, laser Disc, Cassette tape (Beta, VHS) etc ... they have their time and then they are made obsolete because in part the technology becomes obsolete so the data is at risk of being lost. Yet print has remained for hundreds of years not requiring technology other than the ability to interpret.

I read a story, whether it was true or not, that Engineers working on the Artemis project went looking through old Apollo era data but some was stored on media that could not longer be readily accessed because the data play back technology had long been made obsolete.
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