History suggests that parchment is <the> storage medium,  with paper

a close 2nd...

On 4/13/16, Trevor <piclist@sentry.org> wrote:
> When I decommissioned my three-year old Commodore VIC-20 BBS in 1986 to
> use Tom Jennings FidoNet BBS software instead on an IBM compatible, I
> dumped the VIC-20 BBS I'd written (er, ported from Apple BASIC to
> Commodore BASIC with some 6502 machine code for ASCII to PetASCII
> translation) to that erstwhile semi-permanent medium paper which can be
> read even now without technological assistance :)
>
> Twenty-nine years later (2015) I was approached by a retro-computing
> enthusiast from Sweden for a copy which I was able to provide as scans
> of the original printouts.
>
> Never underestimate paper as a storage medium.
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