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RE: [microsound] decay



The real problems with digital archiving are social rather than technical.
Support for media disappears faster than the media wear out.
Also, below is true only if there is no a/d or d/a conversion.

-km


--*Digital is the best archival medium available. Nothing else 
--*comes close. The
--*ability to constantly backup digital code means that even if the storage
--*medium corrupts, as long as copies have been made then the 
--*information can
--*be stored in perpetuity. Ironically the next closest thing would 
--*be paper &
--*ink.
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