32 bit version 4.30

Kaeru Gaman · Post by **Kaeru Gaman** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 11:11 am

a problem with printouts is the ink.
todays cheap standard ink has a really short lifespan, there are CDs avaliable that last longer.
make sure to buy expensive document-safe ink when you want your printouts to last.

... and if you want real lifespan, mill the text into titanium and cover it with quartz glass.

Digital Wargames · Post by **Digital Wargames** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 11:28 am

We won't know that for another 60 years yet. They may well live that long.

You will still need something capable of reading them in 60 years

Kaeru Gaman · Post by **Kaeru Gaman** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 11:30 am

Digital Wargames wrote:
We won't know that for another 60 years yet. They may well live that long.
You will still need something capable of reading them in 60 years

if in 60 years no machine to read the disk existed, no machine to run the code on would exist, either.

Digital Wargames · Post by **Digital Wargames** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 11:30 am

... and if you want real lifespan, mill the text into titanium and cover it with quartz glass.

One could always chisel it in stone

Kaeru Gaman · Post by **Kaeru Gaman** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 11:34 am

Digital Wargames wrote:
... and if you want real lifespan, mill the text into titanium and cover it with quartz glass.
One could always chisel it in stone

in fact that was no joke...
they build "timeballs" where microscopic text is carved into the metal lower half and covered with a crystal glass upper half.
they withstand earthquakes and infernal burns and last over 10.000 years.
you need only to know the font, the language and use an optic microscope...

if this civilisation collapses and falls back into stoneage, the next high culture could find and decipher them.

PB · Post by PB » Sat Jul 25, 2009 11:35 am

Nobody's mentioned microfiche.

Digital Wargames · Post by **Digital Wargames** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 11:42 am

PB wrote:Nobody's mentioned microfiche.

That is a format that needs to die. I spent way too much time dealing with it back when I worked as a historian for the Smithsonian.

Digital Wargames · Post by **Digital Wargames** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 11:44 am

hmm... I could get the source from one of my favorite retro games tattooed on myself

Kaeru Gaman · Post by **Kaeru Gaman** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 12:35 pm

nice idea... then I could make a lampshade out of it.

brgds
Hannibal

Digital Wargames · Post by **Digital Wargames** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 1:43 pm

BTW Zooker - This is your old, old, buddy White Eagle.