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This is a mail from Marvin Humphrey in reply to Dennis Gunn's mail:

Dennis Gunn:

              > Which kind of suggests that Marvin's idea of archiving
to HD is not
              > so farfetched at all doesn't it.

              Wait one cotton-pickin' minute. I did NOT suggest
archiving to HD. It's a
              bad idea, and with each year that passes after the archive
gets put away, it
              becomes a worse idea. I illustrated WHY it was a bad idea,
by showing what
              kinds of massaging become necessary as media ages, and
implying that such
              massaging would be impossible with hard drives.

              Then I went on to argue why digital storage in general is
unstable and
              unforgiving, referencing Shannon and the theory of the
"noisy channel", and
              a remarkable though somewhat technical article that talks
about the need to
              design error correction algorithms after analyzing the
types of noise that
              are likely to afflict a given channel. That's on the OT
list, for those who
              care.

              -- Marvin Humphrey
              Mastering Engineer and Graphic Designer, emeritus
              CD design website - http://marvin.mrtoads.com



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