Digital BW, The Print

And don't forget the software. Even if you can read the bits on the CD that doesn't mean software of the future will be able to decode those bits.

NASA had that problem - early Apollo data were of interest to climatologists, but universities and the US government were not able to retrieve and decode the data.

  - susan

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Dick Rawson" <Yahoo-lists-070713@...> wrote:
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> Millenniata disks don't address the CD obsolescence issue, since to read a Millenniata disk, you need a drive that can read a CD.
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> Dick
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> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Paul" <paulmwhiting@> wrote:
> > ... what will happen when CD drives go the way of 5.25" or 3.5" disk drives? The Millenniata project does look promising ...
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