Re: Archiving very old paper diagrams, drawings and text
Robert Latest <boblatest@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:slrnd9r017.1h0.boblatest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
> The big advantage of "analog" media is that the contents are
> always human-readable with no or little technical effort, even
> when they have sustained considerable damage.
>
I think that the records written by the Etruscans are no longer readable.
Without the Rosetta stone, Egyption hyroglyphics would still be unreadable.
Olde English isn't exactly easy to read.
Methinks you overestimate the advantage of analog media.
The problem of transcribing data is much older than the digital age.
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