[rollei_list] Re: Storage Media [OT]
- From: Rei Shinozuka <shino@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 3 May 2008 21:13:49 -0400
i rememher the story, but as i recalled it , it appeared to
be a confusing violent movie, and at the end, it had a closeup
of a girl's face with a tear in it, and over the titles said
"walt disney"
it's been a while.
-rei
On May03 18:19, Marc James Small wrote:
> 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 b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!
>
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