[Leica] Media Life--NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART

[richard-lists at imagecraft.com (Richard)]

400 years? Heck, try clay tablets and 4000 years. We can still read the 
Hymns to Inanna after all these years :-)

At 05:37 PM 1/9/2005, Brian Reid wrote:

>Carbon-based ink on archival-grade paper is known to last 400 years. If I 
>was really really worried about preserving some information for a thousand 
>years, I think I'd etch it into aluminum plates and seal them in a dry 
>box, but carbon-ribbon impact printing on museum-grade line-printer paper 
>is pretty darn close, and tractable.

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