Date:         Sat, 1 Jul 2006 21:25:59 EDT
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In a message dated 7/1/2006 3:13:42 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
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I read somewhere that some organization, maybe a government agency, was 
studying printing binary 
machine language of certain key digital documents or software and printing on 
archival paper, the 
idea being that it would survive a nuclear war and if surviving people could 
somehow construct a 
computer and punch this stuff in, they'd be able to recreate the digital 
content. Might be sci-fi 
but I'm pretty sure I read it from a reputable news source. This may have 
been some dot-bomb bs in 
the 90s, however.

-- Tom Fine
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About 30 years ago the Kodak research laboratory was working on recording 
digital data on silver halides in gelatin on glass discs. That combination of 
materials has held up for more than 100 years with reasonable storage conditions. 
High resolution black and white emulsions hadn't changed much in that time, 
though "improved" emulsions may be different now. It may have actually been 
used for some military projects.

Mike Csontos