If you are serious about paper records make sure that the paper is CERTIFIED acid free and archive quality. "Ordinary" paper can have a distressing result with some imprinting means over long periods. RM -----Original Message----- From: William Chops Westfield To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU Date: Saturday, 29 April 2000 19:01 Subject: Re: [OT] Life of CDR recordings - Beware! - was Re: [OT] ZIP backup system > As much as I hate to say this, Paper, or better yet, microfiche, might be a > better idea if you forsee a need for this data in 10 or so years. However, > my guess is that most technical data will be obsolete by then > >Obsolete or not, 10 years from now, it might be HISTORY. > >(BillW wishes he'd kept a journal on "current" media since he became >BillW@somewhere (billw@mit-mc, billw@sri-kl.arpa, billw@score.stanford.edu, >billw@cisco.com.) That's about 22 years of history, some of it maybe even >historically significant. And I wish I had transferred those original >Human-Nets emails to tape, and then to something more readable while I still >had access to a 9track tape drive. (But I DO still have SOME 20-year old >emails online and accessible.)) > >BillW >