At 10:35 PM 6/26/2010 +0000, you wrote:
> it is
> > still possible for any given specimen to fail within the first hour
> > of use. It's just statistically less likely.
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>Like a light bulb, most failures seen to happen during a transition such
>as from unpowered to powered.
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>I seem to remember some years ago a company was developing a way to
>preserve data onto paper. I believe they were able to transcribe the 1's &=
>0's to print on archival paper. And a way to accurately scan that back
>into digital.
Actually, keeping data on paper for archival purposes has been around for a=
long time. And I'm not talking about the bible...
Way back, in 1958-59 that I know of first hand, my father in his business
used punched digital paper tapes and punch cards for data storage and
retrieval. A duplicate set was maintained in a bank vault in town and
weekly, updates were made and swapped with the ones in the vault. I
believe this method dates back into the late 1940's, was very labor
intensive and costly and we've come a long ways since then...
But I can still hear the chatter of the mechanical Frieden (sp?) tape punch=
chugging along to this day...
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