[rollei_list] Re: Storage Media [OT]
- From: Marc James Small <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 03 May 2008 18:19:48 -0400
At 05:23 PM 5/3/2008, Rei Shinozuka wrote:
>i bet of all digital media, cards and paper tape will outlive magetic tape,
>floppy disks, maybe even some optical disks. when visitors come ot our
>planet in 1,000,000 years, they'll be reverse-engineering COBOL code to
>figure out what earthlings were about...
>
>-rei
The recently late Sir Arthur Clarke wrote a short
story in the early 1960's in which the Venusians
come to Earth some thousands of years in the
future. Mankind is dead but they find
artifacts. The only thing they can decipher is a
strip of movie film and they are baffled by the
sight of Donald Duck throwing a temper tantrum.
Marc
msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
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