David Nebenzahl wrote:
On 4/26/2011 2:24 AM Smitty Two spake thus:

In article ,
The Daring Dufas wrote:

I wonder if someone or some international
group can come up with a standard archival media that will stay in
use for a century or more?

I have a book printed in 1677, and it's quite readable.

Do you mean you have the actual physical book printed then?

If so, that's amazing to me. Yes, I know such things exist. It's just
that I've never actually seen or touched one. What is it, if you don't
mind my asking?


One showed up in Salt Lake City recently. "The Nuremberg Chronicle", printed
in 1493 and heralded as the SECOND book printed with moveable type (after
the Gutenberg Bible).

http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/120665549.html

They're out there.

I've personally held in my hands the original, hand-written, manuscrips of
Edgar Allen Poe, O'Henry, and others. Browsed through illustrated,
manuscript Bibles created long before Gutenberg, and other other "rare"
works. That's what you get when you attend a "University of the First
Class." That, and panty-raids.

Makes for a well-rounded education.